Tom Rockmore is the Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor and professor of philosophy in the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University and the author of numerous books, including Art and Truth after Plato.
"Marx's Dream is a pleasure to read. It's rather like an
extremely well-informed monologue that stopped being a conversation
when the other participants became aware that Rockmore had a very
fine command of his subject and its surrounding literature, drawn
from everywhere--Marx's sustained preoccupation with a largely
moral question: the conditions of "human flourishing" in an
industrial society--which, for its part, seems like an imaginary
conversation chiefly engaging Hegel and Rousseau and the partisans
of Marxism, who misunderstand Marx's actual views, and a stadium of
others--draws us to consider how we might ourselves answer, under
circumstances ranging over many worlds, including Soviet Russia and
contemporary China. Rockmore traces Marx's answer in terms of the
intended transition from capitalism to communism. Most
instructive."--Joseph Margolis, Temple University
"Rockmore sees Marx as a philosopher in the Socratic mode, a
political gadfly and social critic. Marx's Dream locates us
in the grand tradition of philosophical concern for human
flourishing that never reconciles theory with practice. While
focusing on Marx's thought, independent of Engels and Marxism,
Rockmore takes the reader from Hegel to Habermas, linking timeless
questions with timely observations."--Terrell Carver, University of
Bristol, UK
"Marx's Dream is a good guidebook on how to take Marx
seriously without radicalizing his thoughts in either a hostile or
a fetishistic manner. On the other hand, it is worrisome for a
reader who expects a perfect philosophical (or political system)
from Marx."--Atahan Erbas "Marx & Philosophy Society"
"Another book added to Tom Rockmore's impressive scholarship on
18th- and 19th-century German theory. In Marx's Dream, he
attempts to set the record straight on how best to interpret Marx,
that is, through Marx's own voice or through Engels and the Marxist
traditions. Rockmore's Marx is a profound philosopher in the spirit
of Socrates, a man whose failures lie in his accounts of how to
remedy the ills of industrialization rather than in his diagnosis
of them. . . . Marx's Dream is a must read for those
studying Marx and Marxism or 19th-century German theory, and it
will be of great interest to those working more broadly in
economics, German history, philosophy, political theory, and
sociology."-- "CHOICE, Essential"
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