The Norman Geras reader What's there is there [Hardcover]

This is the first book to gather the key writings of the distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most important Marxist philosophers in the post-war era. Among the essays included here are 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', 'The Duty to Bring Aid', 'Primo Levi and Jean Amery: Shame' and the contentious 'Euston Manifesto', which lays down a set of central principles for the democratic left in the twenty-first century. The reader is rounded out with several posts from Geras's much-loved and widely read 'Normblog', as well as companion essays by Alan Johnson and Terry Glavin, which explore how Geras's philosophical concerns led to his more recent, trenchant critiques of the direction of left-wing politics.
Introduction - Eve Garrard and Ben Cohen

1 Marxism and liberalism

Section introduction - Alan Johnson

Human nature and historical materialism

That most complex being

The controversy about Marx and justice

Marxism, the Holocaust and September 11: an Interview with Norman Geras

The Euston Manifesto

The reductions of the Left


2 The longest hatred: antisemitism

Alibi antisemitism

Marxists before the Holocaust

Marx and antisemitism


3 The responsibility to protect

The duty to bring aid

Humanitarian intervention

The war in Iraq

On justifying humanitarian intervention in Syria

Burying humanitarian intervention


4 The best of Normblog

A Normblog decade

Too much Holocaust

Six theses on the death of Margaret Thatcher

A right denied to millions

Hymning Hizbollah

My Australia

Why football matters

Fiction like green vegetables

Jane Austen's kick

It's his party, you can cry if you want to

Ordinary women

Primo Levi and Jean Amery: shame

Fifteen great l“-