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Curriculum Vitae LAWRENCE WILDE HOME ADDRESS:

PERSONAL DETAILS

2 Patterdale Road

Born: February 2, 1950

Woodthorpe,

Nationality: British

Nottingham NG5 4LF Ph: 0115 9267076

PRESENT POSITION Professor of Political Theory, Division of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU. [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1979 > Nottingham Trent University 1976–1979 Part-time teaching for the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Polytechnic, and The Open University. Freelance Journalism. 1973-1976 Student 1968-1973 Journalist with Sefton District Newspapers, Southport.

EDUCATION 1976-79, The Department of Political Theory and Institutions, University of Liverpool; University Studentship for Ph. D., "The Concept of Contradiction in the Works of Karl Marx" awarded March 1983 (supervised by Dr. T. F. Carver and Dr. J. V. Femia, and examined by Professor David McLellan). 1973-76, Department of Political Theory and Institutions, University of Liverpool; B.A. (hons) Politics (2.1). 1961-68, St. Mary's College, Crosby, Merseyside, 4 ‘A' levels (History, Geography, Economics, General Studies), 6 ‘O' level GCEs.

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PUBLICATIONS of LAWRENCE WILDE Books Global Solidarity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, January 2013), 296 pp. The Marx Dictionary [with Ian Fraser] (London: Continuum, 2011), 240 pp. Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity (New York: Palgrave, 2004), 190pp. Ethical Marxism and its Radical Critics (Basingstoke & New York: Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 1998), 189pp.

Modern European Socialism (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994), 221pp. Marx and Contradiction (Aldershot: Avebury, l989), 118pp.

Edited Books Marxism’s Ethical Thinkers, (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001), 203pp. Approaches to Marx, co-edited with Mark Cowling, (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1989), 231pp.

Journal Articles “Marx, Morality and Global Justice” in Global Discourse 2 (1), at http://globaldiscourse.com/contents/

“Making Myth: The Image of ‘Big Jim’ Larkin in Plunkett’s Strumpet City” in Journal

of European Studies, 41 (1), 2011, pp. 63-75.

3 “The Antinomies of Aggressive Atheism” in Contemporary Political Theory, 9 (3,) 2010, pp. 266-283. “Europe and the Re-Regulation of the World: A Critique of Habermas” in Capital and

Class 93, Autumn 2007, pp. 101-120. “The Ethical Challenge of Touraine’s ‘Living Together’” in the Journal of Global Ethics 3 (1), 2007, pp. 39-53. “The Concept of Solidarity: Emerging From the Theoretical Shadows?” in The British

Journal of Politics and International Relations 9 (1), 2007, pp. 171-181. “The Idea of Reconciliation in Doctorow’s City of God” in Religion and the Arts, 10 (3), 2006, pp. 391-405. "Marx and Justice: The Greek Dimension" in World Philosophy, No. 05, Summer 2005, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (this is the Chinese translation of my 1998 publication in Studies in Marxism). “The Significance of Maternalism in the Evolution of Fromm’s Social Thought” in

European Legacy, 9 (3), 2004, pp. 343-356. “A ‘Radical Humanist’ Approach to the Concept of Solidarity” in Political Studies 54 (1), 2004, pp. 162-178. “The Creatures Too Shall Be Free: Marx and the Human/Animal Distinction” in Capital

and Class 72, 2000, pp. 37-53. “In Search of Solidarity: The Ethical Politics of Erich Fromm” in Contemporary Politics 6 (1) 2000, pp. 37-54. "The Radical Appeal of Hermann Hesse's Alternative Community" in Utopian Studies, 10 (1), 1999, pp. 86-97. "Marx and Justice: The Greek Dimension" in Studies in Marxism 5, 1998, pp. 93-113. "The 1996 Inter-Governmental Conference: What's in it for the Left?" (with Simon

4 Lightfoot), in Contemporary Politics 2 (2) 1996, pp. 7-18. "Marx's Concept of Human Essence and its Radical Critics" in Studies in Marxism 1, 1994, pp. 23-44. "The Politics of Transition: The Swedish Case" in Capital and Class 47, 1992, pp. 7-18. "Class Analysis and the Politics of New Social Movements" in Capital and Class 42, 1991, pp. 55-78. "Socialism and Myth: The Case of Sorel and Bergson" (with M. Vout), in Radical

Philosophy 46, Summer 1987, pp. 2-7. "Sorel and the French Right" in History of Political Thought, 7 (2), l986, pp. 361-74. "Teaching Marx" in Teaching Politics, 15 (1), 1986.

Chapters “Solidarity, Justice and the Postnational Constellation: Habermas and Beyond” in T. Burns and S. Thompson, eds. Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition (Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming, October 2013). “Habermas and Europe: A Critique” in G. Strange and O. Worth, eds. The New

Regionalism and the Left in Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. 153-68. “Marx, Morality and the Global Justice Debate” in M. Johnson, ed., The Legacy of

Marxism:

Contemporary

Challenges,

Conflicts

and

Developments

(London:

Continuum, 2012, pp. 117-34. "The Young Marx" in Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, eds. D. Boucher & P. Kelly, 2nd revised edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 404-418. “The Cry of Humanity: Dylan’s Expressionist Period” in The Political Art of Bob Dylan, eds. G. Browning and D. Boucher, 2nd revised and enlarged edition (Exeter: Imprint

5 Academic, 2009), pp. 104-135. “The Cry of Humanity: Dylan’s Expressionist Period” in The Political Art of Bob Dylan, eds. G. Browning and D. Boucher (London: Palgrave, 2004), pp. 79-104. "The Young Marx" in Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, eds. D. Boucher & P. Kelly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 404-418. “Against Idolatry: The Humanistic Ethics of Erich Fromm” in Marxism’s Ethical

Thinkers, ed. L. Wilde (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 71-94. “The Ethical Marxism of Erich Fromm” in Marx, The Millennium and Beyond, ed. M. Cowling and P. Reynolds (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 55-73. "The Contradictions of Revolutionary Strategy" in Engels After Marx, ed. T. Carver & M. Steger (Pittsburgh: Penn State University Press, 1999), pp. 197-214. "The Demise of the Swedish Model" in Markets and Socialism, ed. A. Nove & I. Thatcher (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1994), pp. 309-19. "Marx Against the Social Contract" in The Social Contract and its Critics, ed. D. Boucher & P. Kelly (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 164-174. "Swedish Social-Democracy and the World Market" in Transcending the State-Global

Divide: The Neo-Structuralist Agenda in International Relations, ed. R. Palan & B. Gills (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner, 1994), pp. 189-202. "Logic: Dialectic and Contradiction" in The Cambridge Companion to Marx, ed. T. Carver (New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 275-95. "The Early Development of Marx's Concept of Contradiction" in Approaches to Marx, ed. M. Cowling & L. Wilde (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1989), pp. 33-48. "Marx's Concept of Class in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" in 1848: The

Sociology of Literature, ed. F. Barker et al (Essex: University of Essex, 1978).

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Other Published Papers "Logica:

dialectica

y

contradiccion"

in

Topos

y

Tropos

at

www.toposytropos.com.ar/N7/decires/logica.htm (2005) “The Creatures Too Shall Be Free: Marx and the Human/Animal Distinction” [originally 2000] in Rob Lucas & Andy Blunden (eds), Marx Myths and Legends at http://marxmyths.org/lawrence-wilde/index.php (2005) "The Radical Appeal of Hermann Hesse's Alternative Community" in Contemporary

Political Studies, volume 3, ed. J. Lovenduski & J. Stanyer (Belfast: Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, 1995). "Eurosocialism: Cause Without Rebels?" in Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, volume 2 (Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 1995), ISBN: 1 899927 02 6. Entries on "Mihailo Markovic" and "André Gorz" in R. Benewick & P. Green, (eds) The

Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers (London: Routledge, 1992), ISBN 0-415-15881-8. "The Left in Czechoslovakia", Catalyst 8, December 1991. "Poles Apart: The Left in Poland", Catalyst 7, September 1991. "Women Against the Church: Polish Feminism", Catalyst 7, September 1991.

Reviews G. Browning and A. Kilmister, Critical and Post-Critical Political Economy in

Contemporary Political Theory, 7 (1), 2008. S. Stjerno, Solidarity in Europe, in Contemporary Political Theory, 6 (1), 2007. H. Uchida, ed., Marx For the Twenty-First Century in The History of Economic Thought (Japan), 48 (2), 2006. S. Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature in Historical Materialism 7, 2000. J. Pike, From Aristotle to Marx in Studies in Marxism 7, 2000 E. Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism, in Journal of European Area Studies 10, 1997 C. Boggs, The Socialist Tradition: From Crisis to Decline and Jules Townshend, The Politics of Marxism: The Critical Debates, in Capital and Class 62, 1997.

7 L. Patsouris (ed) The Crucible of Socialism in Journal of Trotsky Studies 3, 1995. W. Bonefeld, R. Gunn & K. Psychopedis (eds), Open Marxism, in Capital and Class 55, 1995. R. Gottlieb, Marxism, 1844-1990: Origins, Betrayal, Rebirth, in Capital and Class 53, Summer 1994. K. Coates & M. Barratt Brown (eds), A European Recovery Programme, in Capital and

Class, 52, Spring 1994. C. Foley, Legion of the Rearguard, in Irish Political Studies, 8, 1993. J. Schwartzmantel, Socialism and the Idea of the Nation, in Political Studies 40 (1) 1992. D. Boucher, The Dialectics of Civilisation (two books on R. G. Collingwood), in Radical

Philosophy 57, 1991. T. F. Carver, Engels, in Capital and Class 42, 1991. M. Lessnoff, Social Contract in Political Studies 36 (3), 1988.

SEMINAR PAPERS and GUEST LECTURES March 2013, “A Man For All Seasons” at the annual conference of the Political Studies Association, Cardiff University. March 2013, “Educating for Solidarity” at the Joint Seminar between the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Liverpool, and Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity, an International Network, at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Liverpool. February 2013, “Neoliberalism: The Enemy of Solidarity” at the Third Alternative Futures One Day Conference, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University.

November 2012, “The Art of Radical Humanist Ethics”, Guest Lecture for the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham. September, 2012, “The Art of Radical Humanist Ethics” at the Ninth Manchester Workshops in Political Theory. July 2012, “Towards Global Solidarity: A Radical Humanist Ethics”, Plenary Address to the Second International Conference on Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity,

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East

Technical

University, Northern Cyprus campus.

August 2012, “From Image to Gesture in Salles’s Motorcycle Diaries” at the Eighth Manchester Workshops in Political Theory. January 2011, “Marx, Morality and Global Justice: Responding to Nussbaum” at the Conference on “Examining the Relevance of Marx and Marxism to Contemporary Global Problems”, University of Newcastle. September 2010, “Forms of Solidarity in Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible” at the Seventh Manchester Workshops in Political Theory. May 2010, “Nussbaum, Marx and Global Justice” at the “Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice International Conference” at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham. November 2009, “Marx, Global Justice, and Solidarity”, Guest Lecture for the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham. October 2009, “Marx and Environmentalism,” at the Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, Cheltenham. October 2009, “The Myth of Big Jim Larkin in Plunkett’s Strumpet City” at the Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Liverpool Hope University. September 2009, “The Culture of Solidarity: Käthe Kollwitz” at the Sixth Manchester Workshops in Political Theory. June 2009, “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and the Ethics of Care” at the International Utopian Studies Annual Conference, University of Oporto, Portugal. April 2009, “Solidarity in James Plunkett’s Strumpet City” at the annual conference of the Political Studies Association, University of Manchester. March 2009, “Marx, Nature, and Human Nature”, Marx Memorial Library Lecture, Clerkenwell Green, London. September 2008, “The Concept of Solidarity; Past and Present” at the fifth Manchester

9 Workshops in Political Theory. July, 2008, “Wallerstein’s Utopistics Ten Years On: A Bridge to Utopia?” at the International Utopian Studies Association annual conference, University of Limerick. September 2007, “Cosmopolitan Solidarity and Collective Identity: Reflections on Habermas”, Conference on Recognition and Global Justice, University of Nottingham. April 2006, “Radical Humanism, Solidarity and Religion”, annual conference of the Political Studies Association, University of Reading. September 2005, “The Idea of Reconciliation in Doctorow’s City of God”, Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University September 2004, “Towards a Theory of Human Solidarity”, Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University April 2002, “The Solidarity of Property versus the Solidarity of Workers”, Conference on the 150th Anniversary of Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.

RESEARCH Research Trajectory My research focuses on the concept of solidarity, in particular exploring the possibility that the idea of social solidarity, hitherto confined to the nation state, can be mobilised as an essential feature of cosmopolitanism. I adopt a radical humanist theoretical framework in the virtue ethics tradition, drawing on ideas of human flourishing developed by Aristotle, Marx and Fromm. Other approaches to solidarity, e.g. Brunkhorst, Touraine, Honneth, Habermas and Rorty, have been averse to grounding their normative projects in a strong conception of human nature and have consequently struggled to provide criteria for evaluating movements and ideas likely to promote human solidarity. My book, Global Solidarity, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in January 2013. I am also interested in continuing work on the culture of solidarity, examining how novels and other art forms invoke feelings of human empathy in the face of deep social division. This builds on a long-standing

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in

Aesthetics

and

Politics,

reflected in my writings on Herman

Hesse, Bob Dylan, E. L. Doctorow, and James Plunkett. The next project involves a book on the relevance of More’s Utopia, for the 500th anniversary of its first publication, in 2016.

Entry for RAE 2008 (Culture, Communication and Media Studies unit): Single-authored Book

Erich Fromm and the Quest For Solidarity (New York: Palgrave, 2004), 190pp. Refereed Journal Articles “A ‘Radical Humanist’ Approach to the Concept of Solidarity” in Political Studies 54 (1), 2004, pp. 162-178. “The Ethical Challenge of Touraine’s ‘Living Together’” in The Journal of Global Ethics 3 (1), 2007, pp. 39-53. Chapter “The Cry of Humanity: Dylan’s Expressionist Period” in The Political Art of Bob Dylan , eds. G. Browning and D. Boucher, (London: Palgrave, 2004), pp. 79-104.

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION

Successful Ph.D. completions (12): July 2009; Mathew Ashton, “German Party Politics” August 2005; Mark Weinstein, “Youth Participation in Politics” June

2005;

Gulshan

Khan,

“The

Self

and

Politics

in

Habermas

and

the

Poststructuralists” February 2004; Jeffrey Goatcher, “The Philosophical Basis of Participatory Democracy” June 2002; Adam Barnard, “The French Situationists”. February 2002; David Luckin, “Ecotaxation and Sustainable Development”. November 2001; Simon Lightfoot, “The Party of European Socialists from Maastricht to Amsterdam”. March 1999; Gerard Strange, "British Trade Unions and the European Union". December 1998; Alison Martin, "Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine". November 1998; Neil Maycroft, "Henri Lefebvre and the Politics of Reappropriation".

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1998;

Anthony

Burns

(by

publication), "Natural Law Theory and

Political Philosophy". August, 1996; Matthew Henn, "Opinion Polls in Comparative Context".

PH.D. EXAMINATIONS AS EXTERNAL (11): October 2012, Kieron Durkin, “The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm: A Re-appropriation”, University of Glasgow. December 2011, Jonathan Hobson, “The Democratic Potential of the European Parliament”, University of Gloucestershire. September 2010, Matthew Murray, “Real Justice for All”, Cardiff University. November, 2008, Graeme Watson, “Towards a Culture of Being?: Radical Humanism and the Politics of Well-Being”, Queen’s University, Belfast. April 2008, Daniel Blank, “The German Ideology by Marx and Engels: A Political History”, University of Bristol. September 2005, David Layfield, “Ecological Marxism: A Re-statement and Defence”, University of Nottingham. April 2005, Philip O’Sullivan, “Anarchist Critiques of Marx”, Queen’s University, Belfast December 2003, Gavin Moorhead, “Discourse Analysis and the European Union”, Plymouth University March 2001, Peter Critchley, “Marx’s Work in the Tradition of Rational Freedom”, Manchester Metropolitan University September 2001, James Daly, “Two Concepts of Enlightenment”, The Queen’s University, Belfast September 1994, John Dunn, “Dialectic in Marx’s Capital”, University of Bradford.

PH.D. EXAMINATIONS AS INTERNAL (2): September 2000, Patricia Roberts – Thompson. “Democratic Governance, EU Referendums, and the European Union”, Nottingham Trent University. December 1998; Alison Martin, "Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine", Nottingham Trent University.

CURRENT TEACHING "Solidarity, Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship", level three, B.A. Politics, B. A.

12 Sociology, B.A. Humanities. “Global Politics”, level one, B.A. Politics and LLB International Law (This is a doubleweighted module which I introduced in 2001)

PREVIOUS TEACHING 2008-2009, “Media, Power and Politics”, BA Print Journalism and BA Broadcast Journalism, level one – second term, taught entirely through feature films. 2004-2008,"Social Vision: The Utopian Impulse", level three, B.A. Politics, B. A. Sociology, B.A. Humanities. 1995-2003, “Utopia”, level three, B.A. Social Sciences, B.A. Politics. 1995-2000,"Modern Western Political Thought", level two, B.A. Social Sciences, B.A. Politics. 1997–99, co-ordinator, “Researching Politics”, level two, B.A. Politics 1994–98, “Democracy”, two semesterised modules, level two, BA Social Sciences and BA Public Administration 1993-94, "Political Thinkers", level two, B.A. Modern European Studies & Humanities. 1985-94, "Modern European Socialism", level three, B.A. Social Sciences. 1986-89, "Marxism and the State", M.A. in The Politics and Administration of the Modern State. 1979-88, "The Political Theory of the Modern State", level two, B.A. Public Administration. 1982-84, "Contemporary European Marxist Thought", level three, B.A. Social Sciences. 1985-88, Coordinator, Research Techniques Programme, M.A. in The Politics and Administration of the Modern State.

ADMINISTRATION 2006 to present, Member of the Business, Law and Social Sciences College Research Degrees Committee 2007-2011 Member of the School Learning and Teaching Quality Committee 2006-2011 Leader in Curriculum Development, BA Politics 2005-06, Acting Politics Section Leader, Programme Leader and Admissions Tutor, BA Politics. 2001 > Politics Research Coordinator.

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Degrees Committee

2001-02, Level Three Tutor, B.A. Politics. 1999-2000, Head of Politics 1997-98, Politics Research Coordinator 1992-94, Politics Leader, B.A. Modern European Studies. 1990-93 Member of University East European Advisory Group; Member of Faculty Research Committee. 1989-90, Level Three Tutor, B.A. Social Sciences. 1985 to 1990, Course Tutor, M.A. in The Politics and Administration of the Modern State. 1980-85, Level Two Tutor, B.A. Public Administration.

EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES Currently on the editorial board of Global Discourse and Studies in Marxism. 2010 to the present, External Examiner, University of Limerick. March 2009, Marx Memorial Library Lecture, “Marx, Nature, and Human Nature”, Clerkenwell Green, London. May 2008, Academic Reviewer of the Revalidation of Social Science Programmes, University of Lincoln. April 2008, Academic Reviewer of “Global Justice” e-module, University of Nottingham and Universitas 21. 2005 – 2009, Politics External Examiner, Liverpool Hope University 2004 -2007, Politics External Examiner, Cardiff University 1997-2001, External Examiner, part-time Certificate in Political Studies, University of Nottingham. Michaelmas term, 1994, Visiting Academic, Department of Politics, University of Dublin, Trinity College. 1990-94, External Examiner, M. A. Politics and Literature, Teesside University. 1993 to 2011, Chair of the Political Studies Association Marxism Specialist Group. Member of the Political Studies Association of the UK and the Association of Political Thought.

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OTHER EXPERIENCE Work: 1968-1973, journalist with Sefton District Newspapers, Southport, including periods as acting editor of The Bootle Times and The Walton Times. 1973-1979, Freelance Football and Boxing Reporter. Current Memberships: Amnesty International World Development Movement United Nations Association Amnesty International The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Hobbies: Music (listening and playing), reading novels, cinema, theatre, running, hill-walking, cycling, and football (alas, now only as a spectator, after playing for 34 seasons).