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Marxism and Spirituality An International Anthology
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Edited by Benjamin B. Page
ISBN: 0-89789-291-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-291-9
248 pages
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 3/30/1993
List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.
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
LC Card Number: 92-18499
LCC Class: HX5836
Dewey Class: 335.4
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