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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 December 2009
      24 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511527487
      9780521443227
      9780521062282
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527487
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.476kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Philosophy: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy
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    Political Theory, Philosophy: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy
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    This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical, political programme. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the 'general will'. Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory and democratic theory.

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    Review of the hardback:‘… unrelentingly intelligent and innovative … What gives this book its particular quality is the author’s consistently sensible dealing with important and controversial questions, his ability to shape difficult claims persuasively to the argument in hand.’

    Alan Gilbert - University of Denver

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