Seminar – Philosophy of Marxism
Fall 2004
PHI 6934-009;
M
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
Boris Hesser, The
Social Roots of
J. D. Bernal, Science in History
Edgar Zilsel, see Truitt
Engels, Dielectics
of Nature
Ivan Frolov
Joseph Needham,Science
and Civilization in
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