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This much needed perspective represents a first step in the exploration of a long-ignored dimension of Marxist thought. Contributors, both Marxist and non-Marxist, from various countries reflect on such concerns as: the spiritual implications of Marxism and its critiques of economic determinism, alienation, and religion; what Marxism has to say to the more urgent spiritual issues of our time; and legacy of Marxism in a post-Soviet world. Spirituality here refers less to religion than to questions of moral and esthetic value; issues of freedom, creativity, transcendence, and community; the meaning of life and of the struggle to create a better world. This book begins with a brief section from Trotsky and Che Guevara, and Vivian Gornick's work on American Communism, and with overviews of questions of spirituality in pre- and early Soviet Russian thought and in Western Marxism. It then presents the views of several contemporary Marxists, and concludes with contributions on spiritual issues in Marxism's dialogues with Christianity in both East Europe and Latin America, and with Buddhism.

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Author:   Benjamin Page
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780897892919

ISBN 10:   0897892917
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 March 1993
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Classic Visions Socialism and the Human Future by Leon Trotsky, USSR The New Socialist Man: The Dialectic of the Individual and the Collective by Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, Cuba Voices of American Communists by Vivian Gornick, USA Background and Overview Marxism and Spirituality: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Russia by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, USA The Dream and the Reality: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Marxism by Costanzo Preve, Italy Contemporary Marxist Views The Spiritual in Marxism by Herbert Aptheker, USA Spirituality in Marxism: A Communist View by Nancy Bancroft, USA Why I Am Still a Marxist: The Question of Ontology by Zbynek Fiser (Egon Bondy), The Czech Republic On the Spirit and Spirituality: An Essay in Categorical Analysis by M. S. Kagan, Russia Marxism, Transcendence, and Spirituality by Boris Majer, Slovenia Spiritual Impoverishment, Ecological Crisis, and Ecological Communism by Thomas Mongar, USA Portrait of a Marxist as a Young Nun by Helena Sheehan, Ireland Dialogues; Marxism and Christianity: East European Experience by Milan Machovec and Milan Opocensky, both of the Czech Republic Marxism and Christianity: Latin American Experience by José Miguez-Bonino, Argentina Marxism, Buddhism, and the Question of Human Suffering by Christopher Titmuss, England References Index"

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Benjamin B. Page is professor of philosophy at Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Connecticut. In the early 1960s he taught with the Episcopal Church in Haiti and following graduation from college was active in the peace, civil rights, and labor movements in the Boston area. From 1965-67 he studied in Prague in the context of Czechoslovakia's Christian-Marxist dialogue, and later earned a PhD in philosophy and an MS in Urban and Regional Health Planning from Florida State University. In addition to a monograph on Czechoslovakia's attempt in the 1960s to reform socialism, he has published articles in several Czech and U.S. journals.

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