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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 ...
The political theorist Norman Geras described Karl Marx's Theory of History as the leading philosophical discussion of the way in which the character of human beings in any setting depends upon the nature of the prevailing social relations. [13]
Geras said of Marx's work that: "Whatever else it is, theory and socio-historical explanation, and scientific as it may be, that work is a moral indictment resting on the conception of essential human needs, an ethical standpoint, in other words, in which a view of human nature is involved."
Category: Marxist theorists. ... This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, ... Norman Geras; Heide Gerstenberger;
Norman Geras has argued that Karl Marx was a moral realist. [15] ... In his defense of Divine Command Theory and thereby moral realism, ...
For Dave Gianoni, the best-ever Marx toy was a cabled, two-foot tall robot made by the company in the 1960s. Gianoni's grandmother, Ligia Yacobozzi, worked at Marx Toys and often gave toys to her ...
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 ...