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    Marx and alienation: essays on Hegelian themes.Sean Sayers - 2011 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    The concept of alienation: Hegelian themes in modern social thought -- Creative activity and alienation in Hegel and Marx -- The concept of labour -- The individual and society -- Freedom and the "realm of necessity" -- Alienation as a critical concept -- Private property and communism -- The division of labour and its overcoming -- Marx's concept of communism.
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  2. .David McLellan & Sean Sayers (eds.) - 1990 - Macmillan.
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    (2 other versions)Marxism and Human Nature.Sean Sayers - 1998 - Science and Society 64 (4):524-526.
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  4. Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx.Sean Sayers - 2003 - Historical Materialism 11 (1):107-128.
    For Marx, work is the fundamental and central activity in human life and, potentially at least, a ful lling and liberating activity. Although this view is implicit throughout Marx’s work, there is little explicit explanation or defence of it. The fullest treatment is in the account of ‘estranged labour’ [entfremdete Arbeit] in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts;1 but, even there, Marx does not set out his philosophical assumptions at length. For an understanding of these, one must turn to Hegel. Marx (...)
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  5. The Concept of Labor: Marx and His Critics.Sean Sayers - 2007 - Science and Society 71 (4):431 - 454.
    Marx conceives of labor as form-giving activity. This is criticized for presupposing a "productivist" model of labor which regards work that creates a material product — craft or industrial work — as the paradigm for all work (Habermas, Benton, Arendt). Many traditional kinds of work do not seem to fit this picture, and new "immaterial" forms of labor (computer work, service work, etc.) have developed in postindus trial society which, it is argued, necessitate a fundamental revision of Marx's approach (Hardt (...)
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  6. Why Work? Marx and Human Nature.Sean Sayers - 2005 - Science and Society 69 (4):606 - 616.
    Why work? Most people say that they work only as a means to earn a living. This is also implied by the hedonist account of human nature which underlies utilitarianism and classical economics. It is argued in this paper that Marx’s concept of alienation involves a more satisfactory theory of human nature which is rooted in Hegel’s philosophy. According to this, we are productive beings and work is potentially a fulfilling activity. The fact that it is not experienced as such (...)
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  7. Hegel, Marx and Dialectic: A Debate.Richard Norman & Sean Sayers - 1980 - Philosophy 56 (216):276-277.
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  8. Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. Cohen.Sean Sayers - 1984 - Radical Philosophy 36 (36):4-13.
    The dialectical method, Marx Insisted, was at the basis of his account of society. In 1858, in a letter to Engels, he wrote: In the method of treatment the fact that by mere accident I again glanced through Hegel's Logic has been of great service to me... If there should ever be the time for such work again, I would greatly like to make accessible to the ordinary human intelligence, in two or three printer's sheets, what is rational in the (...)
     
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  9. MacIntyre and modernity.Sean Sayers - 2011 - In Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (eds.), Virtue and politics: Alasdair MacIntyre's revolutionary Aristotelianism. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
    At a time when many professional philosophers in the English speaking world have all but given up the attempt to think critically and in large scale terms about the modern world, MacIntyre's work is defiantly untimely, and greatly welcome for that. It is remarkably wide ranging, comprehensive and thought provoking. He has been described as a `revolutionary Aristotelian', but this indicates only part of the picture. His work draws on ideas not only from Marx and Aristotle, but also from analytical (...)
     
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    Identity and Community.Sean Sayers - 1999 - Journal of Social Philosophy 30 (1):147-160.
    The concepts of identity and community have recently been the subject of a good deal of debate in social philosophy, much of it focused on the ideas of writers like MacIntyre, Taylor, Walzer. These philosophers are often referred to as `communitarians', though they do not constitute a united school and none of them identifies himself as such. Nevertheless, there are good reasons 1 for grouping them together, for they share some important elements of common ground. In their different ways, each (...)
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  11. Reality and Reason.Sean Sayers - 1987 - Studies in Soviet Thought 34 (4):267-269.
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  12. On the Marxist Dialectic.Sean Sayers - 1976 - Radical Philosophy 14 (14):9-19.
    Wherever there is movement, wherever there is life, wherever anything is carried into effect in the actual world, there dialectic is at work. It is also the soul of all knowledge which is truly scientific. (Hegel, Enc. Logic, sec. 81Z, p. 148).
     
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  13. Marx.Sean Sayers - 2012 - In Tom Angier (ed.), Ethics: the key thinkers. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  14. Marxism And Morality.Sean Sayers - 2007 - Philosophical Researches 2007 (9):8-12.
    Discussion of Marxism in the Western world since the nineteen-sixties has been dominated by a reaction against Hegelian ideas.1 This agenda has been shared equally by the analytical Marxism which has predominated in the English speaking world and by the structuralist Marxism which has been the major influence in the continental tradition. The main purpose of my own work has been to reassess these attitudes.
     
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  15. Individual and Society in Marx and Hegel: Beyond the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism.Sean Sayers - 2007 - Science and Society 71 (1):84 - 102.
    Marx's concepts of individual and society have their roots in Hegel's philosophy. Like recent communitarian philosophers, both Marx and Hegel reject the idea that the individual is an atomic entity, an idea that runs through liberal social philosophy and classical economics. Human productive activity is essentially social. However, Marx shows that the liberal concepts of individuality and society are not simply philosophical errors; they are products and expressions of the social alienation of free market conditions. Marx's theory develops from Hegel's (...)
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  16. The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School.Sean Sayers - 2006 - In Douglas Moggach (ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 261-274.
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    Plato's Republic: An Introduction.Sean Sayers - 1999 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    This book provides a clear, lively and highly readable introduction to the main themes of Plato's Republic. It covers Plato's social and political thought, his moral philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics, and his philosophy of art and literature. Plato's theories in all these areas are presented in concise and straightforward terms. They are located in the context of the views of subsequent philosophers and critically assessed in the light of current debates. The contemporary significance of Plato's ideas is emphasized throughout.Lucid (...)
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  18. Hegel, Marx and Dialectic.Richard Norman & Sean Sayers - 1983 - Studies in Soviet Thought 25 (1):67-69.
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  19. Hegel and Modern Philosophy.Sean Sayers - 1987 - In David Lamb (ed.). Croom Helm. pp. 143-60.
     
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  20. Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon.Sean Sayers - 1989 - Radical Philosophy 52 (52):34-7.
    The idea that knowledge is a social phenomenon is no longer either novel or unfamiliar. With the growth of the social sciences, we are accustomed to seeing ideas and beliefs in social and historical terms, and trying to understand how they arise and why they take the forms that they do. Philosophers, however, are only gradually coming to terms with these views. For they call in question ideas about the nature of knowledge which have dominated epistemology since the seventeenth century.
     
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  21. Mental illness as a moral concept.Sean Sayers - 1973 - Radical Philosophy 5:2.
     
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    Materialism, Realism and the Reflection Theory.Sean Sayers - 1983 - Radical Philosophy 33 (33):16-26.
  23. Moral Values and Progress.Sean Sayers - 1994 - New Left Review (204):67-85.
     
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  24. The concept of alienation in existentialism and marxism Hegelian themes in modern social thought.Sean Sayers - unknown
    The concept of alienation is one of the most important and fruitful legacies of Hegel's social philosophy. It is strange therefore that Hegel's own account is widely rejected, not least by writers in those traditions which have taken up and developed the concept in the most influential ways: Marxism and existentialism.
     
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  25. Alienation as a critical concept.Sean Sayers - 2011 - International Critical Thought 1 (3):287-304.
    This paper discusses Marx’s concept of alienated (or estranged) labour, focusing mainly on his account in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. This concept is frequently taken to be a moral notion based on a concept of universal human nature. This view is criticized and it is argued that the concept of alienation should rather be interpreted in the light of Hegelian historical ideas. In Hegel, alienation is not a purely negative phenomenon; it is a necessary stage of human (...)
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  26. Work, Leisure and Human Needs.Sean Sayers - 1986 - Thesis Eleven 14 (1):79-96.
  27. The concept of authenticity.Sean Sayers - unknown
    The concept of authenticity -- the idea of `being oneself' or being `true to oneself' -- is central to modern moral thought. Yet it is a puzzling notion. This article discusses two accounts of it. Essentialism holds that each individual has a `true' nature or self. Feelings and actions are authentic when they correspond to this nature. This approach is contrasted with views of the self as a complex entity in which all parts are essential, and in which authenticity involves (...)
     
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  28. Marxism and the Crisis of Capitalism.Sean Sayers - 2009 - Philosophical Trends 2009 (5):19-21.
    Since 2007, capitalism has been going through its greatest crisis since the 1930s or before. In 2008, the banking system was saved from meltdown (at least for the time being) only by extensive government intervention in the USA, Britain, and a number of other countries. Stock markets all over the world plummeted. Then the crisis spread to the ‘real’ economy. A long and deep recession followed. Only now are we perhaps beginning to see what may – or may not – (...)
     
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  29. Dialectic in western marxism.Sean Sayers - unknown
    The fundamental principles of modern dialectical philosophy derive from Hegel. He sums them up as follows. ‘Everything is inherently contradictory ... Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality, it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity' (Hegel 1969, 439). In Hegel's philosophy these ideas form part of an all−embracing idealist system which portrays all phenomena ×− both natural and social ×− as subject to dialectic. Marx (...)
     
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    Socialism and morality.David McLellan & Sean Sayers (eds.) - 1990 - New York: St. Martin's Press.
    WHAT IS THE ROLE OF MORAL VALUES IN SOCIALISM? CAN SOCIALISM BE 'SCIENTIFIC' OR IS IT ESSENTIALLY AN ETHICAL DOCTRINE? IS THERE ANY PLACE FOR mORALITY IN Marxism? THESE QUESTIONS ARE CENTRAL TO MUCH RECENT CONTROVERSY ON THE LEFT. 'SOCIALISM AND MORALITY' CONTAINS A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL AND IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THESE DEBATES BY A DISTINGUISHED GROUP OF PHILOSOPHERS AND POLITICAL THEORISTS. ALL THE PAPERS WERE SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THIS VOLUME AND MAKE A LIVELY, WIDE-RANGING AND VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE (...)
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    Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader.Peter Osborne & Sean Sayers (eds.) - 1984 - New York: Routledge.
    Since 1972, the journal _Radical Philosophy_ has provided a forum for the discussion of radical and critical ideas in philosophy. It is the liveliest and probably the most widely read philosophical journal in Britain. This anthology reprints some of the best articles to have appeared in the journal during the past five years. It covers topics in social and moral philosophy which are central to current controversies on the left, focusing on theoretical issues raised by the socialist, feminist and environmental (...)
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  32. A brief history.Sean Sayers - unknown
    Radical Philosophy was born in the aftermath of the student movement of the 1960s. At that time, philosophy in British universities was very conservative and traditional. Ordinary language philosophy, the analytical approach, and the empiricist tradition were absolutely dominant. However, the student movement of the 1960s had opened young people's minds to a whole new range of radical ideas and issues. These were dismissed as not worthy of study, and excluded from discussion in philosophy departments.
     
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    (1 other version)A Future for Socialism.Sean Sayers - 1995 - Philosophical Books 36 (3):209-211.
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    (2 other versions)Analytical Marxism and Morality.Sean Sayers - 1989 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19 (sup1):81-104.
  35. Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume.Sean Sayers - 1989 - In Kai Nielsen & Robert Ware (eds.). University of Calgary Press. pp. 81-104.
     
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  36. Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism.Sean Sayers - 1989 - In Kai Nielsen & Robert Ware (eds.). University of Calgary Press. pp. 66-85.
     
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    Adriaan T. Peperzak, Modern Freedom: Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy , pp. xxvi + 675. ISBN 0792370406.Sean Sayers - 2004 - Hegel Bulletin 25 (1-2):158-163.
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    Contradiction and Dialectic.Sean Sayers - 1991 - Science and Society 55 (1):84 - 91.
    Confusingly, Marquit insists on describing his own position as `materialist dialectics'. I shall come to the question of materialism in due course; but dialectic it is not not, at least, in the usual sense of the term, which describes the philosophy of Hegel and classical Marxists like Engels and Lenin. This is quite explicitly a philosophy of contradiction, as Marquit himself demonstrates at some length (148-56). Its central tenet is that change is an essential feature of all concrete things; and (...)
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    Contradiction and Dialectic in the Development of Science.Sean Sayers - 1981 - Science and Society 45 (4):409 - 436.
  40. DIALECTIC: a bibliography.Sean Sayers - 1976 - Radical Philosophy 14:20.
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  41. Dialectic and Social Criticism.Sean Sayers - 2007 - Spartacus 9 (89):86-90.
    other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of vanity towards it'. The dialectical method, Hegel maintains, must `give up this freedom'. It refuses `to intrude into the immanent rhythm (...)
     
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  42. Editorial.Sean Sayers - 1987 - Radical Philosophy 47:1.
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  43. Examinations and Academic Illiteracy.Sean Sayers - 1972 - Radical Philosophy 1 (1):14-15.
  44. Epistemology and Relativism.Sean Sayers - 1990 - Annalen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie - Societas Hegeliana 7:164-168.
     
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  45. Economic Ethics.Sean Sayers - 1992 - Etika 4 (1 SN -?):60-68.
  46. A note on emergent materialism.Sean Sayers - unknown
    In common with other forms of nonreductive materialism, emergent materialism of this sort is accused of trying to have its cake and eat it. Ontological physicalism, it is said, necessarily implies reductionism which rules out the idea that there are irreducible emergent mental properties and laws. For according to such physicalism, everything is composed of physical constituents whose behaviour is governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. It follows that, in theory at least, every particular mental process is describable (...)
     
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    Equal Opportunity.Sean Sayers - 1990 - Philosophical Books 31 (3):176-177.
  48. Engels Today: a Centenary Appreciation.Sean Sayers - 1996 - In Christopher J. Arthur (ed.). Macmillan. pp. 153-172.
     
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  49. Freedom and the 'Realm of Necessity'.Sean Sayers - 2006 - In Douglas Moggach (ed.), The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases; thus in the very nature of things it lies beyond the sphere of actual material production. Just as the savage must wrestle with Nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilized man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production. With his development this realm of physical necessity expands as (...)
     
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  50. F.H. Bradley and the Concept of Relative Truth.Sean Sayers - 1991 - Radical Philosophy 59 (59):15-20.
    Few people now read F.H. Bradley and the British Idealists. This is not because they are not important philosophers. On the contrary. It is generally agreed that Bradley, in particular, 2 is a major philosopher, as well as a great, if demanding, writer. It is rather because Bradley and the other Idealists are thought to inhabit a philosophical world quite different from that of the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. They seem to be concerned with issues and problems which have little (...)
     
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