From poverty to well-being and human flourishing. Volume 2, A Marxian approach / Julio Boltvinik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boltvinik, Julio, author.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Research--Methodology.

Poverty.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.

Summary:

Following the highly respected first volume, this book outlines Julio Boltvinik's Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing.

Contents:

Front Cover

Volume 2 From Poverty to Well-being and Human Flourishing: A Marxian Approach

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Part I Negative and positive bases of the new paradigm

1 Negative bases: a synthesis of the critique of the political economy of poverty (CPEP)

1.1 Sen's and Rawls's critiques of utilitarianism: Sen's critique of opulence and primary goods approaches

1.2 Internal and external critique of the NCT

1.3 Sen's and Nussbaum's capabilities approaches: a critique

1.4 Critique of the dominant definitions of poverty in the PEP: comparison with the definitions of poverty in my New Paradigm

1.5 The narrow conceptual map of the PEP compared with the broader one of the NAPHF or NP

2 Positive bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology I - work and the human essence

2.1 Work: life-activity and essence of man

2.2 Man as a universal social entity

2.3 Man as a universal conscious being

3 Positive bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology II - human essence and history

3.1 Recapitulation: HB's essential features and the Marxist concept of N

3.2 Human essence and history

4 Two tests of Marx's Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA)

4.1 Current paleoanthropology validates MPhA

4.2 MPhA tested by perfectionism

4.2.1 An outline of MPhA

4.2.2 Confronting MPhA and Hurka's perfectionism

5 Positive bases of the New Paradigm II: concepts and theories of human needs

5.1 The concept of human need in philosophy

5.2 Definitions of poverty and needs in everyday life

5.3 On the nature of needs

5.4 Debate with Levitas and Leiss regarding key distinctions within human needs

6 Comparative analysis of human needs' theories.

Part II The new paradigm: perspectives for its development

7 A new approach to poverty and human flourishing

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Constituent elements of the human flourishing axis (HFA)

7.3 Cutting perspectives from the four sub-.axes of the human flourishing axis

8 Development challenges to the new approach to poverty and human flourishing

8.1 Looking at the future: CT, utopia, and the NAPHF

8.1.1 Paradigm of production (PP) and the possibility of CT

8.1.2 Some notes on utopian thought

8.2 Radical needs and change in the structure of the system of needs

8.2.1 Radical needs

8.2.2 Change in the structure of needs and society of associated producers

8.3 Free time, technological change, and human flourishing

9 Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow's and the subjective well-.being currents of thought

9.1 Overview: where my NAPHF stands? How would I want it to develop?

9.2 Description and critique of SWBSE

9.3 Thomson, Gill, and Goodson: conceptions and principles - their critique of well-being studies

9.3.1 Conceptions and principles from which TGG depart

9.3.2 TGGs critique of WB currents of thought

9.4 Recovering Maslow: needs' satisfaction and self-actualising WB

9.5 Maslow and Marx-Márkus: deficiency and growth motivations - traits of the self-actualising person (Maslow) and the huma

10 Thomson, Gill, and Goodson's Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: challenging the Flourishing/.Well-.being approach

10.1 Exclusive or complementary? Is it desirable/.possible to integrate WBSE and OWBSE?

10.2 A third theory: DESINTT - definition of WB and relative inescapability

a critique

Final remarks

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4473-7227-1

1-4473-7220-4

OCLC:

1511104905