The Norman Geras Reader -

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Résumé :
This is the first book to gather the key writings of the distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most important Marxist philosophers in the post-war era. Among the essays included here are 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', 'The Duty to Bring Aid', 'Primo Levi and Jean Amery: Shame' and the contentious 'Euston Manifesto', which lays down a set of central principles for the democratic left in the twenty-first century. The reader is rounded out with several posts from Geras's much-loved and widely read 'Normblog', as well as companion essays by Alan Johnson and Terry Glavin, which explore how Geras's philosophical concerns led to his more recent, trenchant critiques of the direction of left-wing politics....

Biographie:
Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester Ben Cohen is a New-York based writer and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Tablet, Haaretz, Commentary and other publications...

Sommaire:
Anthology introduction -Ben Cohen and Eve Garrard Part I Marxism and liberalism On Geras's Marxism - Alan Johnson 1 Human Nature and Historical Materialism 2 That Most Complex Being 3 Minimum Utopia 4 The Controversy About Marx and Justice 5 What Does it Mean to be a Marxist? 6 The Euston Manifesto 7 The Reductions of the Left Part II The longest hatred: antisemitism 8 Alibi Antisemitism 9 Marxists Before the Holocaust 10 Marx and antisemitism Part III The responsibility to protect 11 The Duty to Bring Aid 12 Humanitarian Intervention 13 The War in Iraq 14 On Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Syria 15 Burying Humanitarian Intervention Part IV Normblog: the best of Introduction - Ben Cohen and Eve Garrard A Normblog decade Too much Holocaust Six theses on the death of Margaret Thatcher A right denied to millions Hymning Hizbollah My Australia Why does football matter? Fiction like green vegetables Jane Austen's kick It's his party, you can cry if you want to Ordinary women Primo Levi and Jean Amery: shame Fifteen great jazz albums Thinking about war To keep on keepin' on Epilogue: reflections on the work of Norman Geras - Terry Glavin Norman Geras: the complete bibliography Index...