Macmillan Press have published the following book of interest to social
policy colleagues:
Martin Hewitt, Welfare and Human Nature: the human subject in twentieth
century social politics (ISBN 0-312-23409-0), price 42.50 pounds.
The subject of human nature has recently returned to the centre of welfare
debates in Britain, with prime ministers and academics addressing the
effects of social policy on individual character and social morality.
This book offers an extensive examination of ideas about human nature and
motivation in twentieth century social policy, focusing specifically on
social democratic, neo-liberal and mutualist ideas in mainstream welfare
and on Marxist and feminist alternatives. It pays close attention to the
important reappraisal of welfare and human needs currently underway in each
of these movements as they respond to the changes affecting global
capitalism at the turn of the new century. The book attends to the renewed
interest in human nature in Marxist and feminist thought - especially about
mutual welfare, the struggle for recognition and human need - and considers
their contribution to revitalizing welfare thought and practice in the new
century.
Each chapter provides a systematic account of the human nature discourses
of each intellectual movement, noting central ideas and tensions in each
discourse and their influence on social policy.
Contents:
1. Introduction
Part I Mainstream Traditions in Social Policy
2. Social Democracy and Human Nature
3. Equality and Difference in the Postwar Years
4. Human Nature and the Right
Part II Critical Perspectives on Human Nature
5. Marx and Human Nature
6. Marxism, Human Nature
7. Feminism, the Politics of Recognition and Social Policy
8. Conclusion.
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