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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... fact may seem almost too obvious to be worth mentioning. Yet the rigid identification of the two fathers of historical materialism and the rooted conviction that all of Engels's philosophical positions reflected Marx's thought were to ...
... fact that for Hegel reason is not human thought but the Totality of things, the Absolute, and possesses ... facts are transcended, and it is denied they have genuine reality. The realm of empirical truth is transformed into an internal ...
... fact that he 'criticized the mystificatory side of the Hegelian dialectic nearly thirty years ago, at a time when it was still the fashion.'31 The problem of Feuerbach's influence is more complicated than appears at first sight. Della ...
... fact, as Maurice Dobb has pointed out in Chapter 5 of his Political Economy and Capitalism (1937), its significance is far wider. 'In making abstraction of particular elements in a situation,' he writes, 'there are two roads along which ...
... fact that the state (the 'public interest', the universal properly so called) was no mere means, but rather the end. However, Hegel's solution does not really overcome the separation of 'civil society' from 'political society' either ...
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 |