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Marxism and Human Nature

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Routledge, 1998 - Social Science - 203 pages
Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach and engages with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy.
  

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User Review  - Chris Byron - Goodreads

Overall this is a really good book that puts the humanism back in Marx's work; something that is completely necessary in contradistinction to supposed Marxists regimes. The title though is quite ... Read full review

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Contents

Two concepts of human fulfilment
14
The need to work
36
The role of leisure
60
Alienation and economic development
79
The actual and the rational
95
Analytical Marxism and morality
111
Moral values and progress
130
Marxism and human nature
149
Two concepts of human fulfilment 14
14
The need to work 36
36
The role of leisure 60
60
Alienation and economic development 79
79
The actual and the rational 95
95
Analytical Marxism and morality 111
111
Moral values and progress 130
130
Marxism and human nature 149
149

human nature as a historical phenomenon 3
3

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Marxism and Human Nature: a reply to Terry Eagleton
This reply to Eagleton's review of Marxism and Human Nature was commissioned by New Left Review and written in November 1999. ...
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Marxism and Human Nature
Marxism and Human Nature Book by Sean Sayers; 1998. Read Marxism and Human Nature at Questia library.
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Marxism, Human Nature, and Social Change. - Review - book review ...
Sean Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature (London: Routledge, 1998), 203 pp. At a time when politicians, academics, and media pundits celebrate the demise of ...
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Marxism and Human Nature
Marxism and Human Nature. Author: Sean Sayers. ISBN: 978-0-415-44902-1 (paperback) 978-0-415-19147-0 (hardback) 978-0-203-20041-4 (electronic) ...
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Monthly Review December 1999 Martha Gimenez
Sayers' arguments rest upon his grasp of Marx's method; in this sense, his book is not only about Marxism and human nature but is an object lesson in how to ...
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International Socialism: How humans make themselves
Sean Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature (Routledge, 2007), £20.00 ... In Marxism and Human Nature Sean Sayers attempts to provide a sophisticated Marxist ...
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西方政治思想史参考资料-Marxism and Human Nature (Routledge Studies ...
书名: Marxism and Human Nature (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 作者: Sean Sayers (Author) 出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (December 7, ...
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3 Marxism(s) and Postmarxism(s) -- DALY 9 (1): 22 -- The Year's ...
In the era of ‘third ways’ Sean Sayers’ book Marxism and Human Nature represents an attempt to develop a historical humanism that is intended to steer ...
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Joseph Fracchia Beyond the Human-Nature Debate: Human Corporeal ...
recent attempts, Sean Sayers’s Marxism and Human Nature. Then I shall suggest. an alternative way of formulating the problem and a research direction, both ...
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A Marx Bibliography
Sayers, S. (1998) Marxism and Human Nature. @ Species-being and consciousness. Markus, G. (1975) ‘The Marxian concept of consciousness’, Philosophy and ...
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About the author (1998)

Sean Sayers is reader in philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury.