The General Will
Rousseau, Marx, Communism
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- Author: Andrew Levine, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Date Published: May 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521062282
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This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical, political programme. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the 'general will'. Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory and democratic theory.
Read more- A provocative book arguing a highly unfashionable thesis
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Review of the hardback: '… unrelentingly intelligent and innovative … What gives this book its particular quality is the author's consistently sensible dealing with important and controversial questions, his ability to shape difficult claims persuasively to the argument in hand.' Alan Gilbert, University of Denver
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- Date Published: May 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521062282
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The general will in theory
2. The 'origin' of the private will
3. Solidarity
4. Democracy in the Age of States
5. The last state
6. The liberal state and/versus the last state
7. Rousseauean Marxism and/versus liberalism
8. Communism
9. After communism, communism?
Index of names.
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