Seminar – Philosophy of Marxism


Fall 2004
PHI 6934-009;  M
5:00-7:50 PM, FAO 248

 

Willis Truitt
FAO 241
813-974-5137

Suggested readings by area

Each student will select one area to research and report on

 

 

Social-Political Theory

Marx, Engels, Lenin,

Mao, Che Gevara,

Antonio Grumsci,

M. Comforth, The Open Philosophy and Open Society

 

 

Political Economy

Marx, Capital

GDH Cole, The Meaning of Marxism

Paul Mattick, Limits of the Mixed Economy

Union of Radical Political Economists, publications

 

 

Philosophy of History

G. A. Cohen, Marx’s Theory of History, A Defense

Melvin Rader

On Historical Materialism, Marx, Engels, Lenin.  International Publishers

Truitt, “On the Question of Technological Determinism”

 

 

Ethics

Marshall Cohen, Marx, Justice and History

Wm Ash, Marxism and Moral Philosophy

Howard Selsom

McClellan, Socialism and Moality

Truitt, Marxist Ethics

 

 

 

 

Epistemology

Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach

Engels, Anti-Dühring

Lenin, Materialism and Empirio Criticism

S. Hook, From Hegel to Marx

R. S. Cohen, “Dialectical Materialism and Carnap’s Logical Empiricism” See Truitt

G. Novak, Empiricism and Its Evolution

M. Comforth, Dialectical Materialism, vol. 3 Theory of Knowledge International Pub.

 

 

History and Philosophy of Science

Laren Graham, see Truitt, Science, Philosophy and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union

Boris Hesser, The Social Roots of Newton Principia

J. D. Bernal, Science in History

Edgar Zilsel, see Truitt

Engels, Dielectics of Nature

Ivan Frolov

Joseph Needham,­Science and Civilization in China

 

 

History of Philosophy

G. Novak, Empiricism, Existentialism

G. Thomson

B. Farrington

G. Lukacs, Existentialism, Young Hegel, Destruction of Reason

A. Edelman, see Truitt

Engels, L. Feuerbach and The End of Classical German Philosophy

A.D. Winspear

 

 

Feminism

Engels, Origin of The Family, Private Property and The State

Rosa, Luxemburg

Klana Zetkin, Internation Pub.

Juliet Mitchell

Margaret Benston

Carole Stabile, In Defense of History, see Truitt

 

 

Texts

Mc Clellan, Marx: Selected Writings

Marcuse, Reason and Revolution