Marx and Wittgenstein : Knowledge, Morality and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415247757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str.

G. N. Kitching; Gavin Kitching; Nigel Pleasents

Opis

At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasizing the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. The contributors to this book are scholars drawn from sociology, politics, economics and philosophy. They focus on areas including: the role of the Marxist economist Sraffa on Wittgenstein's philosophical development; the conventional image of Wittgenstein's significance for Marxist social science, as perpetrated by Winch and Gellner; the philosophical anthropology of Marx and Wittgenstein; and the ethical and political status of Marxist knowledge-claims in the light of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Spis treści

Part I: Conventional Wisdom
Part II: Commonalities
Part III: Wittgenstein and Sraffa
Part IV: Disjunctions
Part V: Forerunners
Part VI: Knowledge, Morality and Politics

O autorze

Gavin Kitching is a Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In addition to Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (Routledge, 1988) and Marxism and Science: Analysis of an Obsession (Penn State, 1994), he has written books on Africa, Third World development and globalisation. A collection of personal essays, Wittgenstein and Society, will be published in 2003.,
Nigel Pleasants is Lecturer in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar (Routledge, 1999).