The interpretive literature in the history of political thought is now vast, complex, and esoteric, posing as much a barrier to the understanding of students as it offers assistance. This unique and innovative text provides an essential guide to the major positions and debates that surround the texts of key thinkers. It analyzes major problems of interpreting them, examines the sources of disagreement, and evaluates the different interpretations in terms of their strengths, weaknesses, and contributions to scholarship.

Interpreting Modern Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Marx

Politics & Social Sciences

Townshend, Jules

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Central to this volume is the collapse of the so-called Marxist regimes of Eastern Europe. This volume, written in the light of the apparent complete failure of the Marxian political project, aims to present, in an accessible way, a thematic synthesis of the critical debates. The emphasis is placed on Marxist politics in practice, looking at questions of class alliances, parliamentary forms of democracy, nationalism and the future of Marxism. Debates are set within their historical context; their significance for contemporary politics, both in Eastern Europe and the rest of the world, is evaluated and they are related to the problems found in Marx's original project.

Politics of Marxism: The Critical Debates

Philosophy

Leicester University Press

The Politics of Marxism: The Critical Debates

UNKNO

Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism (SAGE Politics Texts series)

<p>This book is the first comprehensive guide and introduction to the central theorists in the post-marxist intellectual tradition. In jargon free language it seeks to unpack, explain, and review many of the key figures behind the rethinking of the legacy of Marx and Marxism in theory and practice. Key thinkers covered include Cornelius Castoriadis, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, Laclau and Mouffe, Agnes Heller, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas and post-Marxist feminism. Underlying the whole text is the central question: What is Post-Marxism? Each chapter covers a key thinker or contribution and thus can be read as a stand alone introduction to the principal aspects of their approach. Each chapter is also followed by a summary of key points with a guide to further reading. </p>

Literature & Fiction

Tormey, Simon

History & Criticism

Sage Publications Ltd.

In this sympathetic restatement of C B Macpherson's ideas, Townshend provides an overview of Macpherson's theory of possessive individualism and critique of liberal democracy. He suggests that criticism of Macpherson has been misplaced and asks whether his theories should now be given more prominence by political theorists. This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the issues surrounding Macpherson's work; previous studies have used him as a point of departure rather than the focus of detailed analysis and none have included an overall assessment of his thought.

C. B. Macpherson and the Problem of Liberal Democracy

Edinburgh University Press

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