Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy Freedom, Recognition, and Human Flourishing Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy Series

Interest in the study of Marx?s thought has shown a revival in recent years, with a number of newly established academic societies, conferences, and journals dedicated to discussing his thought. This book brings together distinguished and up-and-coming scholars to provide a major re-evaluation of historical issues in Marx scholarship and to connect Marx?s ideas with fresh debates in contemporary Anglo-American social and political philosophy. Among the topics discussed are Marx?s relationship to his philosophical predecessors?including Hegel, the young Hegelians, and the utopian socialists?his concept of recognition, his critique of liberalism, and his views on the good life. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students interested in Marx, Hegel, the history of political thought, and social and political philosophy.

Introduction

Jan Kandiyali

Part I: Marx and his Predecessors

1. Perfectionism, Alienation, and Freedom: From the German Idealists to Marx

Douglas Moggach

2. The Early Marx and Hegel: The Young Hegelian Mediation

Emmanuel Renault

3. Marx, Engels, and Some (Non-Foundational) Arguments against Utopian Socialism

David Leopold

Part II: Marx and Recognition

4. From the Old Hegel to the Young Marx and Back: Two Sketches of an Evaluative Ontology of the Human Life-Form

Heikki Ikäheimo

5.How do Rights Affect our Freedom? On some differences between Hegel and Marx – and why they shed light on Honneth’s social philosoph

Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch

6. Human Solidarity in Hegel and Marx

Andrew Chitty

Part III: Marx and Liberalism

7. Marx and Hegel on the Value of ‘Bourgeois’ Ideals

Frederick Neuhouser

8. Marxian Liberalism

Jeffrey Reiman

9. Liberalism, Marxism, Equality, and Living Well

Christine Sypnowich

Part IV: Marx, Communism and Good Life

10. Two Marxian Themes: The Alienation of Labour and the Linkage Thesis

Daniel Brudney

11. Schiller and Marx on Specialization and Self-Realization

Jan Kandiyali

12. The Idea of Communism

Sean Sayers

Jan Kandiyali is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey