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

Abstract

Visions and vertigo - viewing modernity from the Acropolis, George E. McCarthy. Part 1 Hegel and the Greeks - remembrance of things past: Karl Marx and the influence of Greek antiquity on 18th century Germany, Horst Mews the Polis transformed - Aristotle's Politics and Marx's critique of Hegel's Philosophy of right, David Depew the origins of the dialectic - Hegel's approriation of ancient skeptics, Stephen Smith. Part 2 Marx and Epicurus - materialism, ethics, and Greek physics: the Greek accent of the Marxian matrix, Michael DeGolyer Marx and Epicurus - post-Aristotelian philosophy of nature and Marx's dissertation, George E. McCarthy Karl Marx and Greek philosophy - some explorations in the themes of intellectual accommodations and moral hypocrisy, Laurence Baronovitch. Part 3 Marx and Aristotle - human capabilities and social structures: nature, function, and capability - Aristotle on distribution, Martha Nussbaum Aristotle, Kant and the ethics of the young Marx, Philip Kain households, markets and firms, William James Booth. Part 4 Marx and Aristotle - morality and Praxis: Marx and Aristotle - a kind of consequentialism, Richard Miller Marx's moral realism - Eudaimonism and moral progress, Alan Gilbert Praxis and morality - Marx's Species being and Aristotle's political animal, Joseph Margolis Marxian subjectivity, idealism and Greek philosophy, Thomas Rockmore.