Ernest Belfort Bax
Marxist, Idealist, and Positivist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4874866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Bevir (0000-0001-9666-3113, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2709863 |
| OpenAlex | W2032035523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Author(s): Bevir, Mark | Abstract: Bax was the leading philosopher of the socialist revival in Britain during the 1880s. He saw Marxism as an economic and historical science that lacked a philosophical and ethical basis. Consequently, he tried to justify the Marxian dialectic by using a philosophy indebted to German idealism to show that the dialectic was a fact about reality itself, and he also tried to provide an ethical defence of Marxism in terms of a positivist ethic enshrining the goals of the French Revolution. Such an understanding of Bax's philosophy makes his political activities appear more rational than historians have previously thought
Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2010 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |