This anthology includes some of the best articles to have appeared in the Radical Philosophy journal over the past five years. It covers topics in social and moral philosophy which are central to current controversies on the left, focusing on theoretical issues raised by the socialist, feminist and environmental movements.

Sean Sayers, Peter Osborne, Christopher J. Arthur

INTRODUCTION, Christopher J. Arthur; Part 1 Part I FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY; Chapter 1 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND THE TENSIONS IN FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY, Jean Grimshaw; Chapter 2 HEGEL AS LORD AND MASTER, Christopher J. Arthur; Chapter 3 MORALITY, MASCULINITY AND THE MARKET, Ross Poole; Chapter 4 FEMINISM AND THE LOGIC OF MORALITY, Susan F. Parsons; Chapter 5 FROM VIRGINIA WOOLF TO THE POST-MODERNS, Pauline Johnson; Part 2 Part II SOCIALISM AND PHILOSOPHY; Chapter 6 PROLETARIAN PHILOSOPHY: A VERSION OF PASTORAL?, Rée Jonathan; Chapter 7 MARXISM AND THE DIALECTICAL METHOD, Sean Sayers; Chapter 8 ANALYTICAL MARXISM: A NEW PARADIGM?, Joseph McCarney; Chapter 9 SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY, Roger Harris; Part 3 Part III NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE; Chapter 10 WOMEN, HUMANITY AND NATURE, Val Plumwood; Chapter 11 HUMANISM=SPECIESISM?, Ted Benton; Chapter 12 THE HUMAN BODY IN SOCIAL THEORY, Russell Keat; Index;