1st Edition

Hayek Versus Marx And today's challenges

By Eric Aarons Copyright 2009
260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The aim of the book is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical thinking that is now beginning in response to global warming. The author provides an examination of the theories of the most prominent social philosophers of the 19 th and 20 th centuries – Karl Marx and Friedrich Hayek. He does so in the belief that the work of these two thinkers, in their... Read more

Introduction 1. The Two Social Philosophers 2. Market Virtues – and Limitations  3. Reason, Rules, Spontaneity  4. The Clash of Spontaneous Processes  5. Dialectics and a New Paradigm  6. Built in Marx’s Name  7. Social Justice  8. Morality  9. Human Nature 10. Law and the Rule of Law  11. Freedom, Coercion, Property  12. Politics, Democracy  13. Marx and Methodology  14. Hayek and Methodology  15. The Primacy of Values

Biography

Eric Aarons is the former Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia. His many published works include his memoirs, What's Left? - published by Penguin Books in 1993.