From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature: 315 (Historical Materialism Book Series, 315)

Holmstrom, Nancy

ISBN 10: 9004703268 / ISBN 13: 9789004703261

Published by Brill, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature: 315 (Historical Materialism Book Series, 315)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004703268
• ISBN 13: 9789004703261
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 666.8 grams

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Synopsis

This book shows the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The idea is that different modes of production like capitalism and feudalism have structures -- 'relations of production' -- which shape and limit the potentials for human emancipation in general and women’s freedom in particular. Capitalism is then understood as a framework within which other relations of oppression operate, with more or less salience in different times and places. Each of the essays takes this basic approach to key philosophical questions about freedom, rationality and human nature.

About the Author

Nancy Holmstrom, Ph.D 1970, University of Michigan, Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Rutgers University-Newark. A lifelong activist, she has published numerous articles on core political-philosophical topics, edited The Socialist-Feminist Project (MR2002) and co-authored Capitalism For and Against: A Feminist Debate (Cambridge 2011).