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Kamenka, Eugene was born on April 3, 1928 in Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany. Arrived in Australia, 1937. Son of Sergei and Nadja (Litvin) Kamenka.
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( The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in ...)
The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in 1962 and corrected and revised for a 1972 edition, examines carefully and critically the origin, precise nature and subsequent role of Marx’s ethical beliefs. Drawing freely on Marx’s still largely untranslated philosophical works and drafts the author elicits the ethical presuppositions with which Marx began. He then examines the intellectual development that made Marx a Communist and seeks to clarify the place of Marx’s ethic in his mature, ‘materialist’ work. Professor Kamenka distinguishes sharply between the critical, ethical views of Marx and the inept, conventional applications of his doctrine by Engels. He appraises the ‘ethics’ of the Communist Party and traces the development of the moral and legal theory in the Soviet Union. He concludes by subjecting Marxism as a whole to a radical, ethical and philosophical criticism for which Marx himself laid some of the foundations.
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In this critical survey, the author, who is one of the best informed and most perceptive amongst Marxist scholars, examines both Marx's positive ethics of the truly human man freed from alienation and Marx's materialist critique of moralities as class-bound ideologies. He considers the contributions of Marx's disciples, in the Soviet Union and the western world, and argues that Marxism has conflated a number of ethical positions -- the ethics of self-realisation, utilitarianism, ethical relativism, evolutionary ethics and an unexamined ethic of self-determination and cooperation. Whatever its defects may be, Marxism has helped to point the way to a sociology of morals and to an understanding of the connection between man and society.
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professor of the history of ideas
Kamenka, Eugene was born on April 3, 1928 in Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany. Arrived in Australia, 1937. Son of Sergei and Nadja (Litvin) Kamenka.
Bachelor, University Sydney, Australia, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University, 1964.
Research scholar in philosophy, Australian National U., Canberra, 1955-1957; research fellow in philosophy, Australian National U., Canberra, 1961-1962; research fellow, fellow, senior fellow, professional fellow, Australian National U., Canberra, 1962-1974; professor, Australian National U., Canberra, since 1975; lecturer in philosophy, University of Malaya, Singapore, 1958-1959. Visiting professor U. British Columbia, 1986. Visiting fellow Trinity College, New York City, 1968.
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( The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in ...)
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He was educated at the Sydney Technical High School, and after interrupting his studies went to Jerusalem where he married his first wife Miriam mizrachi .with her encouragement he returned to Sydney university to complete his degree and begin work on his later published thesis | 'The Ethical Foundations of Marxism'for the Australian national university , publ 1962.
Fellow Academy Social Sciences in Australia (executive member 1971-1974), Australian Academy Humanities (honorary secretary, council 1976-1981). Member Australian Society for Legal Philosophy (president since 1987).
Married Miriam Mizrahi, 1950 (divorced 1964). Children: Anat, Eri; married Alice Erh-Soon Tay, December 18, 1964.