Abstract

As though echoing recent organizational moves among American philosophers to insure pluralism of viewpoints, Marxism and Alternatives undertakes to show the special thrust, as well as interaction and overlapping, of four different philosophies precisely designated in the subtitle. Further, the four main sections of the book consider, often in detail, major themes in other current perspectives, such as linguistic analysis and logical empiricism, as they present, with considerable uniformity, answers to essential questions on man, society, epistemology, and ontology. The common pattern of exposition and the amount of interrelating indicate that the authors’ collaboration must have been very close, no mean achievement in a vocation where the practitioner is often described as “one who thinks otherwise.”