Thinking Towards Humanity CB: Themes from Norman Geras - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester.

Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester

Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester

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How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the twentieth Century and continues in the present one? Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left? Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day. It does this by focusing on the work of Norman Geras – Marxist, political philosopher and blogger – and developing the central themes of his work such as crimes against humanity, the Holocaust, Marxism, and the means/ends problem in politics. It contains contributions by famous political philosophers such as Michael Walzer, Hillel Steiner and David McLennan, and bloggers and journalists such as David Aaronovitch, Nick Cohen and Ophelia Benson. The book contains a unique response by Geras in which he draws together the various themes it covers.