Absolute Ethical Life - Melbourne Book Launch

Join NIBS in launching Michael Lazarus' new book Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx!

Join us Tuesday, 19th of August, at The Alderman (134 Lygon Street) to hear from Michael, Miguel Vatter and MC'd by Lucy, NIBS coordinator.

We'll be selling copies of the book on the night, as well as in store after the event.

This event is kindly supported by the SEARCH Foundation.

About Absolute Ethical Life:
Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding how freedom and rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today.

Michael Lazarus situates Marx within a shared tradition of ethical inquiry, placing him in close dialogue with Aristotle and Hegel. Lazarus traces the ethical and political dimensions of Marx's work missed by Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, two of the most profound critics of modern politics and ethics. Ultimately, the book claims that Marx's value-form theory is both a continuation of Aristotelian and Hegelian themes and at the same time his most distinctive theoretical achievement.