Rescuing Autonomy from Kant: A Marxist Critique of Kant's Ethics

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Brill, 2023 - Philosophy - 339 pages
In Rescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxism's relation to Kant's ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibility, but critique. Although Kant's formulas of the categorical imperative presuppose a belief in God that Kant cannot motivate, the value of autonomy can instead be grounded by appeal to an antinomy in capitalism's basic structure, and this commits us to socialism.

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About the author (2023)

James Furner, Ph.D. (2008, University of Sussex), is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Universtiy of Sussex, U.K., and author of Marx on Capitalism: the Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis(Haymarket, 2019).

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