By Eric Aarons
The objective of the ebook is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical pondering that's now starting in keeping with international warming. The writer presents an exam of the theories of the main sought after social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries – Karl Marx and Friedrich Hayek. He does so within the trust that the paintings of those thinkers, of their commonalities and ameliorations, successes and screw ups, include vital symptoms of the content material of a social philosophy suited for today’s stipulations.
The e-book proceeds within the context of the failure of the makes an attempt through fans of Marx, having accomplished political strength, to understand the targets they took to factor from his theories, at the one hand, and of the sooner successes, yet now rising disasters of the neo-liberal philosophy of Hayek to deal with the with the environmental results of these very successes, at the different. In doing so, the publication will by the way critique postmodernism, due to its declare to be ‘Theory’ as such, which for a new release impeded actual theoretical and philosophical work.
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