Marx and Aristotle : nineteenth-century German social theory and classical antiquity

As the Iron Curtain was shattered recently in Eastern Europe, revealing a diversity of cultural traditions lost during the recent past, so too the curtain which has hidden Karl Marx's writings for many years seems to be crumbling. Its disappearance reveals a rich complexity of traditions and visions that underlay his social, political, and economic theory. "Marx and Aristotle" brings together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of recent scholarship, most written especially for this volume, to look further behind this historical veil by examining the influence of classical Greek philosophy, especially the thought of Aristotle and Epicurus, on Marx. Marx's Vision : A Poem / By Jeffrey Collins -- Introduction : Visions And Vertigo : Viewing Modernity From The Acropolis / By George E. Mccarthy -- Karl Marx And The Influence Of Greek Antiquity On Eighteenth-century German Thought / By Horst Mewes -- The Polis Transfigured : Aristotle's Politics And Marx's Critique Of Hegel's Philosophy Of Right / By David J. Depew -- The Origins Of The Dialectic : Hegel's Appropriation Of The Ancient Skeptics / By Steven B. Smith -- The Greek Accent Of The Marxian Matrix / By Michael Degolyer -- Karl Marx And Greek Philosophy : Some Explorations Into The Themes Of Intellectual Accommodation And Moral Hypocrisy / By Laurence Baronvitch -- Nature, Function, And Capability : Aristotle On Political Distribution / By Martha Nussbaum -- Aristotle, Kant, And The Ethics Of The Young Marx / By Philip J. Kain. Households, Markets, And Firms / By William James Booth -- Marx And Aristotle : A Kind Of Consequentialism / By Richard W. Miller -- Marx's Moral Realism : Eudaimonism And Moral Progress / By Alan Gilbert -- Praxis And Meaning : Marx's Species Being And Aristotle's Political Animal / By Joseph Margolis -- Marxian Subjectivity, Idealism, And Greek Philosophy / By Tom Rockmore. Edited By George E. Mccarthy. Includes Bibliographical References. 'The work is an interesting and unusual collection of writings on a subject about which little has been written.' |s RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW