Early WritingsThe three major writings in this excellent volume are: "On the Jewish Question", "Contributions to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Introduction" and "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts." All were published originally in 1844 when Marx was 26 and present the "humanist ethic" of this controversial figure, as well as the relation between his early Hegelian idea and his later sociological investigations. |
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Page xi
... Social study was to be a science seeking social laws , the validity of which was to be analogous to that of physical laws . Social practice , especially the matter of changing the social system , was here- with throttled by the ...
... Social study was to be a science seeking social laws , the validity of which was to be analogous to that of physical laws . Social practice , especially the matter of changing the social system , was here- with throttled by the ...
Page 157
... social character is the universal character of the whole movement ; as society itself produces man as man , so it is produced by him . Activity and mind are social in their content as well as in their origin ; they are social activity and ...
... social character is the universal character of the whole movement ; as society itself produces man as man , so it is produced by him . Activity and mind are social in their content as well as in their origin ; they are social activity and ...
Page 158
... social product . My own existence is a social activity . For this reason , what I myself produce I produce for society , and with the consciousness of acting as a social being . My universal consciousness is only the theoretical form of ...
... social product . My own existence is a social activity . For this reason , what I myself produce I produce for society , and with the consciousness of acting as a social being . My universal consciousness is only the theoretical form of ...
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abolish accumulation activity Adam Smith alienated labour ancien régime appears atheism Bauer become BRUNO BAUER capital capitalist Christian civil society commodity competition conceived concept consciousness consequence contradiction criticism demand division of labour economist Editor's note egoistic elements essence exchange existence expression external faculties feudal Feuerbach German greater Hegel Hegel's Philosophy human Ibid increase individual industry interest Jewish question Judaism Karl Marx landed property landlord landowner large landed property liberty man's manuscript Marx Marx's material means MICHIGAN modern monopoly moral nations nature necessary negation object objectification owner particular Philosophy of Right Physiocrats political economy political emancipation practical private property production profit reality relation relationship religion religious rent of land secular self-alienation self-consciousness sense sensuous SMITH social species-being species-life sphere spirit superseded equals supersession tenant tion universal wages wealth whole worker