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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... concept of a contradiction between the method and the system ended by absorbing and obscuring another one, which looked similar but was in fact quite different. This is the idea expressed by Marx in the Postface to the second edition of ...
... concept of alienation in Hegel – where it means simply the objectivity of nature – with the quite different concept in Marx's work, where it refers not to natural objects as such but to what happens to the products of labour when (as a ...
... concept, which ought to express the predicate of some real object and so be a category or function of that object, is turned instead into an entity existing in its own right. By contrast, the real subject, the subjectum of the judgement ...
... concepts, concepts with some bearing on the objects in question; instead, he starts from an Idea which is nothing less than the divine Logos itself, the spirit-god of Christian religion. Since this Idea is the presupposition of ...
... Concepts of Reflection'), it is also possible to see a critique of 'real universals'. Hence, the only specific contribution which Feuerbach can be held to have made is a reapplication of one aspect of this tradition in the new context ...
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 |