Early WritingsWritten in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his Letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are his controversial essay On the Jewish Question and the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, where Marx first made clear his views on alienation, the state, democracy and human nature. Brilliantly insightful, Marx's Early Writings reveal a mind on the brink of one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history - the theory of Communism. |
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... Christianity. As a student in Bonn and Berlin he was influenced by Hegel's dialectic, but he later reacted against idealist philosophy and began to develop his theory of historical materialism. He related the state of society to its ...
... Christianity was 'a necessary complement to Hegel's speculative doctrine of religion', rather than its radical ... Christian Aristotle – he is the German Proclus. The “absolute philosophy” is the resurrection of Alexandrianism.'10 ...
... Christian religion. Since this Idea is the presupposition of everything but cannot presuppose anything outside itself, it follows that the logico-deductive process must be one of creating objects. Hegel has to conjure the finite out of ...
... Christianity, 1841) we find this idea stated explicitly in Feuerbach's Vorläufige Thesen zur Reform der Philosophie (Provisional Theses for a Reform of Philosophy, 1842). In March 1843 Marx wrote to Ruge telling him he had read this ...
... Christian. The Christian, in spite of logic, has only one incarnation of the Logos; the philosopher has never finished with incarnations. 33 So backward has study of Marx's work remained on questions like this that the connection ...
Contents
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Letters from | cxcvii |
On the Jewish Question 1843 | ccxi |
A Contribution to the Critique | ccxlvii |
Excerpts from James Mills | cclxv |
Economic and Philosophical | cclxxxix |
Critical Notes on the Article | cxxi |
Appendix | iii |
Chronology of Marxs Life | xviii |
Note on Previous Editions of | xxiii |