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The End of the State: A Marxist Reflection on an Idea of Rousseau’s
Levine
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name to ffep. Remains a very good copy
Is it possible, as Marx and Engels announced in the Communist Manifesto, for there to occur a withering away of the state? In this cool and lucid work of speculative philosophy, Andrew Levine traces the ideal of communism from Rousseau's notion of the perfect state in which the general will would be spontaneously expressed, to Marx's classless utopia. He argues that Rousseau's legacy allows us to think of ways in which human beings can be transformed, morally and politically, from the condition in which the state is necessary. This is quite different, Levine shows, from the dangerous Stalinist dream of ... Read more
Is it possible, as Marx and Engels announced in the Communist Manifesto, for there to occur a withering away of the state? In this cool and lucid work of speculative philosophy, Andrew Levine traces the ideal of communism from Rousseau's notion of the perfect state in which the general will would be spontaneously expressed, to Marx's classless utopia. He argues that Rousseau's legacy allows us to think of ways in which human beings can be transformed, morally and politically, from the condition in which the state is necessary. This is quite different, Levine shows, from the dangerous Stalinist dream of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Verso
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860918813
SKU
KMK0012514
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99-1
About Levine
Andrew Levine (1944-2021) was Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For Verso he was the author of The End of the State -A Marxist Reflection on an Idea of Rousseau's (1987), Arguing for Socialism: Theoretical Considerations (1988) and Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History, (with Erik Olin Wright and Elliott ... Read more
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