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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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Abstract:
This is an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach, engaging with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy.
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"Sayer's book is an articulate, sophisticated and clear discussion of human nature as a historical phenomenon. It is beautifully written and has insights into a rich range of topics form the role of work in contemporary society to the ambivalent nature of social progress. Anyone interested in sociology, politics and philosophy of our society will find this book throught-provoking and fruitful<br>."<br>-David McLellan, University of Kent <br> Read more...
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