Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of Americas foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalisms hidden coercive structures.Maps a new frontier in moral philosophy and political theoryDistills a new concept of justice that recognizes the iniquities of capitalismSynthesis of elements of Marxism and Liberalism will interest readers in both campsDirect and jargon-free style opens these complex ideas to a wide readership
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Commended for PROSE (Philosophy) 2012.
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1 Overview of the Argument for Marxian Liberalism |
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2 Marx and Rawls and Justice |
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2.1 Marx's Theory of Capitalism and Its Ideology |
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2.2 Rawls's Theory of Justice as Fairness |
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2.5 Marxian Liberalism's Historical Conception of Justice |
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3 The Natural Right to Liberty and the Need for a Social Contract |
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3.1 A Lockean Argument for the Right to Liberty |
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3.2 Our Rational Moral Competence |
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3.3 From Liberty to Lockean Contractarianism |
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4 The Ambivalence of Property: Expression of Liberty and Threat to Liberty |
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4.1 Locke, Nozick, and the Ambivalence of Property |
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4.2 Kant, Narveson, and the Ambivalence of Property |
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4.3 Marx and the Structural Coerciveness of Property |
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5 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle |
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5.1 The Moral Version of the Labor Theory of Value |
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5.2 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle |
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5.3 Finding a Just Distribution |
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5.4 Is the Difference Principle Biased? |
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5.5 Answering Narveson and Cohen on Incentives |
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6 The Marxian-Liberal Original Position |
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6.1 Property and Subjugation |
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6.2 The Limits of Property |
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6.3 The Marxian Theory of the Conditions of Liberty |
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6.4 Inside the Marxian-Liberal Original Position |
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6.5 The Difference Principle as a Historical Principle of Justice |
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7 As Free and as Just as Possible: Capitalism for Marxists, Communism for Liberals |
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7.2 Capitalism for Marxists |
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7.3 The Marxian-Liberal Ideal: Property-Owning Democracy |
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7.4 Communism for Liberals |
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| Conclusion: Marx's "Liberalism," Rawls's "Labor Theory of Justice" |
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Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, DC. A central figure in numerous political and philosophical debates in America, including those on abortion and criminal justice, he is the author of In Defense of Political Philosophy (1972), Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy (1990), Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice (1997), The Death Penalty: For and Against (with Louis Pojman, 1998), Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life (1999), The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 10th edn. (with Paul Leighton, forthcoming), and more than a hundred articles on philosophy and criminal justice.
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