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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... idea of a contradiction between Hegel's principles and his actual conclusions, between the 'revolutionary' dialectical method and the conservative system. But there is no documentary evidence at all that Marx ever accepted this idea of ...
... idea of Hegel the pan-logical rationalist. Marx on the other hand perceives the mysticism as one of reason, deriving from Hegel's all-pervading logic – that is, deriving from the fact that for Hegel reason is not human thought but the ...
... Idea – in other words, a predicate of the predicate, a mere means by which the Idea vests itself with reality. In his notes on Hegel's paragraph 279, Marx says: Hegel makes the predicates, the objects, autonomous, but he does this by ...
... Idea which is nothing less than the divine Logos itself, the spirit-god of Christian religion. Since this Idea is the presupposition of everything but cannot presuppose anything outside itself, it follows that the logico-deductive ...
... Idea. For as Hegel's task is not to discover the truth of empirical existence but to discover the empirical existence of the truth, it is very easy to fasten on what lies nearest to hand and prove that it is an actual moment of the Idea ...
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 |