Philip J Kain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip J Kain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kain |
| SIGNATURE | KAIN P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy
Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the predictable outcome of his thought. How might one combat this completely mistaken image? What if one could demonstrate that Western European social democracy represents Marx’s thought far more than did Soviet Marxism? What if one shows that Marx and social democracy are quite compatible? What if one shows that Marx actually supported social democratic parties? If social democracy is clo…
Hegel and Right: A Study of the Philosophy of Right
Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence
Research Article| April 01 2007 Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence Philip J. Kain Philip J. Kain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2007) 33 (1): 49–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717896 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Philip J. Kain; Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies …
Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit
This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel's text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the traditional understanding of the absolute and touches on Hegel's relation to contempora…
Self-consciousness, the other and Hegel's dialectic of recognition: Alternative to a postmodern subterfuge
This article examines Hegel's treatment of self-consciousness in light of the contemporary problem of the other. It argues that Hegel tries to subvert the Kantian opposition between theoretical and practical reason and tries to establish a form of idealism that can avoid solipsism. All of this requires that Hegel get beyond the Kantian concept of the object - or the other. Hegel attempts to establish an other that is not marginalized, dominated, …
Marx, Sahlins, and Ethnocentrism
Marx's historical-materialist philosophy of history has often been criticized for being ethnocentric. Jon Elster (1985, 490), for example, suggests that it has become a "conceptual straight-jacket for the study of much non-western history." Marshall Sahlins, in his book, Culture and Practical Reason (1976), as well as critics like Baudrillard (1975, 59, 65-67) Balbus (1982, 33-36), and Aronowitz (1981, 67-68), have argued that Marx develops a sin…
Marx, Housework, and Alienation
For different feminist theorists, housework and child rearing are viewed in very different ways. I argue that Marx gives us the categories that allow us to see why housework and child care can be both a paradigm of unalienated labor and also involve the greatest oppression. In developing this argument, a distinction is made between alienation and oppression and the conditions are discussed under which unalienated housework can become oppressive o…
Marx and Ethics
This study traces the development of Karl Marx's ethics as they underwent shifts and changes during different periods of his life
Marx and Ethics
Marx’ Method, Epistemology, and Humanism: A Study in the Development of His Thought
The young Marx and Kantian ethics
Marx and the abolition of morality
Nietzsche, Skepticism, and Eternal Recurrence
Some Nietzsche scholars, like Wilcox and Kaufmann, think that for Nietzsche there are truths and that knowledge of them is possible. I do not think that this reading is correct. Other scholars, like Danto and Cameron, think that Nietzsche rejects the possibility of truth. In my opinion they are correct, but they also think that this rejection gives rise to serious difficulties in Nietzsche's thought. I think that Nietzsche was aware of these diff…
Marx's Theory of Ideas
In the German Ideology (1845-1846), Marx developed what he called his "materialist view of the world." Engels later called it historical materialism. This view involves many problems, and a great deal of disagreement exists over what follows from it concerning the relationship of ideas to material conditions. I would like to try to explain Marx's theory of ideas as well as the methodology connected with it, and to show that these matters can be c…
Marx's Dialectic Method
In the Grundrisse and Capital Marx's method and epistemology are quite different from the positions he held on these matters in either the 1844 Manuscripts or the German Ideology. Despite these differences Marx in the Grundrisse and Capital finds a middle ground between his two earlier out- looks and works elements of them into a new synthesis. It is my contention then that neither the essential unity view, which accepts no fundamental shifts in …
Estrangement and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
S MARX'S THOUGHT DEVELOPS, we find a series of shifts, tensions, and perhaps even contradictions in the relationships between his theories of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the overcoming of estrangement, and of revolution. These are the issues which we propose to trace and to sort out. The aim of Marx's political writings, from 1843 on, was to overcome the estrangement of the modern state. The state should no longer stand over society, …
Marx, Housework, and Alienation
For different feminist theorists, housework and child rearing are viewed in very different ways. I argue that Marx gives us the categories that allow us to see why housework and child care can be both a paradigm of unalienated labor and also involve the greatest oppression. In developing this argument, a distinction is made between alienation and oppression and the conditions are discussed under which unalienated housework can become oppressive o…
Self-consciousness, the other and Hegel's dialectic of recognition: Alternative to a postmodern subterfuge
This article examines Hegel's treatment of self-consciousness in light of the contemporary problem of the other. It argues that Hegel tries to subvert the Kantian opposition between theoretical and practical reason and tries to establish a form of idealism that can avoid solipsism. All of this requires that Hegel get beyond the Kantian concept of the object - or the other. Hegel attempts to establish an other that is not marginalized, dominated, …
Marx's Dialectic Method
In the Grundrisse and Capital Marx's method and epistemology are quite different from the positions he held on these matters in either the 1844 Manuscripts or the German Ideology. Despite these differences Marx in the Grundrisse and Capital finds a middle ground between his two earlier out- looks and works elements of them into a new synthesis. It is my contention then that neither the essential unity view, which accepts no fundamental shifts in …
Estrangement and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
S MARX'S THOUGHT DEVELOPS, we find a series of shifts, tensions, and perhaps even contradictions in the relationships between his theories of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the overcoming of estrangement, and of revolution. These are the issues which we propose to trace and to sort out. The aim of Marx's political writings, from 1843 on, was to overcome the estrangement of the modern state. The state should no longer stand over society, …
Marx's Dialectic Method
In the Grundrisse and Capital Marx's method and epistemology are quite different from the positions he held on these matters in either the 1844 Manuscripts or the German Ideology. Despite these differences Marx in the Grundrisse and Capital finds a middle ground between his two earlier out- looks and works elements of them into a new synthesis. It is my contention then that neither the essential unity view, which accepts no fundamental shifts in …
Marx's Theory of Ideas
In the German Ideology (1845-1846), Marx developed what he called his "materialist view of the world." Engels later called it historical materialism. This view involves many problems, and a great deal of disagreement exists over what follows from it concerning the relationship of ideas to material conditions. I would like to try to explain Marx's theory of ideas as well as the methodology connected with it, and to show that these matters can be c…
Nietzsche, Skepticism, and Eternal Recurrence
Some Nietzsche scholars, like Wilcox and Kaufmann, think that for Nietzsche there are truths and that knowledge of them is possible. I do not think that this reading is correct. Other scholars, like Danto and Cameron, think that Nietzsche rejects the possibility of truth. In my opinion they are correct, but they also think that this rejection gives rise to serious difficulties in Nietzsche's thought. I think that Nietzsche was aware of these diff…
Marx and the abolition of morality
Marx’ Method, Epistemology, and Humanism: A Study in the Development of His Thought
The young Marx and Kantian ethics
Marx and Ethics
Marx and Ethics
This study traces the development of Karl Marx's ethics as they underwent shifts and changes during different periods of his life
Marx, Sahlins, and Ethnocentrism
Marx's historical-materialist philosophy of history has often been criticized for being ethnocentric. Jon Elster (1985, 490), for example, suggests that it has become a "conceptual straight-jacket for the study of much non-western history." Marshall Sahlins, in his book, Culture and Practical Reason (1976), as well as critics like Baudrillard (1975, 59, 65-67) Balbus (1982, 33-36), and Aronowitz (1981, 67-68), have argued that Marx develops a sin…
Marx, Housework, and Alienation
For different feminist theorists, housework and child rearing are viewed in very different ways. I argue that Marx gives us the categories that allow us to see why housework and child care can be both a paradigm of unalienated labor and also involve the greatest oppression. In developing this argument, a distinction is made between alienation and oppression and the conditions are discussed under which unalienated housework can become oppressive o…
Self-consciousness, the other and Hegel's dialectic of recognition: Alternative to a postmodern subterfuge
This article examines Hegel's treatment of self-consciousness in light of the contemporary problem of the other. It argues that Hegel tries to subvert the Kantian opposition between theoretical and practical reason and tries to establish a form of idealism that can avoid solipsism. All of this requires that Hegel get beyond the Kantian concept of the object - or the other. Hegel attempts to establish an other that is not marginalized, dominated, …
Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit
This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel's text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the traditional understanding of the absolute and touches on Hegel's relation to contempora…
Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence
Research Article| April 01 2007 Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence Philip J. Kain Philip J. Kain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2007) 33 (1): 49–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717896 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Philip J. Kain; Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies …
Hegel and Right: A Study of the Philosophy of Right
Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy
Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the predictable outcome of his thought. How might one combat this completely mistaken image? What if one could demonstrate that Western European social democracy represents Marx’s thought far more than did Soviet Marxism? What if one shows that Marx and social democracy are quite compatible? What if one shows that Marx actually supported social democratic parties? If social democracy is clo…
Philosophy (12 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Alienation (3 works)