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Norman Geras (/ ˈ ɡ ɛr ə s / GHERR-əs; [1] 25 August 1943 – 18 October 2013) [2] was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester.He contributed to an analysis of the works of Karl Marx in his book Marx and Human Nature [3] and the article "The Controversy About Marx and Justice".
Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend is a 1983 book by the political theorist Norman Geras, in which the author discusses the philosopher Karl Marx's theory of human nature with reference to Marx's Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach. Geras argues that Marx did not deny the existence of a universal human nature, and maintains that the concept of ...
Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend by Norman Geras (1983) is a concise argument against the view that Marx did not believe there was something such as human nature, in particular the confusion surrounding the sixth of the Theses on Feuerbach. Wood, Allen (2004) [1983]. Karl Marx (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
The work for which Cohen is best known, Karl Marx's Theory of History helped to establish analytical Marxism and was awarded the Isaac Deutscher memorial prize. [4] [5] Cohen's interpretation of Marx runs counter to most forms of twentieth-century Marxism, [6] and has been criticised as a form of technological determinism. [3] [6] [7]
Norman Geras, in a New Left Review article titled "Post-Marxism?", lambasted Laclau and Mouffe for what he regarded as shallow obscurantism grounded on basic misunderstandings of both Marx and Marxism. After Laclau's and Mouffe's response to Geras' paper (in "Post-Marxism without apologies"), Geras doubled down with "Ex-Marxism Without ...
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the separation and estrangement of people from their work, their wider world, their human nature, and their selves. Alienation is a consequence of the division of labour in a capitalist society, wherein a human being's life is lived as a mechanistic part of a social class .
Marx and Engels had both alluded to this notion in previous writings, for instance in their first collaborative work, The Holy Family, in which they wrote, "Body, being, substance are but different terms for the same reality. It is impossible to separate thought from matter that thinks."
Category: Marxist theorists. ... This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, ... Norman Geras; Heide Gerstenberger;