 Eugen Dühring and Post-Utopian SocialismE. James Gay ()
A chapter in The State as Utopia, 2011, pp 191-204 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter deals with the largely forgotten political economist and philosopher Eugen Dühring’s critique of utopian socialism. In laying out his design for what he termed sociatarianism, Dühring issued a critique not only of the utopian thought of early socialists such as Fourier and Owen, but also of the “scientific socialism” of Karl Marx. The development of utopia is analyzed historically as it changed from its early modern inception up through the nineteenth century, and philosophically as it relates to its epistemological precondition, the human faculty of reason. Dühring’s philosophy of reality (Wirlichkeitsphilosophie), including his metaphysics and conceptual critique of reason, is examined along with his futuristic vision of a “free society.” It is shown that while Dühring’s brand of socialism contains elements of utopia, there is a qualitative difference that separates it from the older and younger socialism of his day. Keywords: Rational Imagination; Economic Commune; Free Association; Good Society; French Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-1-4419-7500-3_15 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7500-3_15 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences from Springer |
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