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Marxism and human nature

Author: Sean Sayers
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought, 16.
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Is there such a thing as human nature? Sean Sayers gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian approach to uphold the controversial theory that human nature is actually a historical phenomenon.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sean Sayers
ISBN: 0415191475 9780415191470
OCLC Number: 38992907
Description: ix, 203 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: PART I: WORK AND HUMAN NATURE: Introduction: Human nature as a historical phenomenon --
Two concepts of human fulfilment --
The need to work --
The role of leisure --
Alienation and economic development --
PART II: VALUES AND PROGRESS: The actual and the rational --
Analytical Marxism and morality --
Moral values and progress --
Marxism and human nature --
Appendix: Gorz on work and liberation --
Notes.
Series Title: Routledge studies in social and political thought, 16.
Responsibility: Sean Sayers.
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