Marx and Aristotle : nineteenth-century German social theory and classical antiquity /

A collection of articles loosely organized around the theme of the Aristotelian roots of Marx's philosophy. Some of the essays deal primarily with Aristotle, most primarily with Marx, and others with Hegel and the influence of Aristotle on the German philosophical tradition surrounding Marx's work. Marx himself explicitly recognized his debt to Aristotle. In recent years, Scott Meikle's Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx (1985), Philip Kain's Marx' Method, Epistemology, and Humanism (Dordrecht, 1986), and McCarthy's own Marx and the Ancients (CH, Apr'91) have deepened our understanding of this debt to Aristotle. Editor McCarthy's previous work has argued for the presence in Marx's thought of an ethical theory strongly influenced by Aristotle. Although it presents valuable material on other matters as well, this collection evinces the editor's interest in Marx's ethics in its inclusion of a number of first-rate essays on that topic, most previously published elsewhere. R. Hudelson; University of MinnesotaDSDuluth