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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... freedom (a category unknown to the ancient Greeks, brought into the world by the Reformed Christianity of the sixteenth century). Hegel's ambition is to find a new mode of unity which will recompose the fragments of modern society. Such ...
... freedom' of private individuals, and so to perpetuate the fragmentation of the underlying economic society which Locke called 'natural society', and which Hegel and Marx call die bürgerliche Gesellschaft, civil or bourgeois society ...
... freedom' in the modern sense (the freedom of private individualism) was quite unknown. The individual was 'free' only to the extent to which he was a member of a free community. In medieval times there was if possible even less ...
... freedom consists in the identity (supposedly two-sided) of the system of particular interests (the family and civil society) and the system of the general interest (the state). The relationship between these two spheres must now be ...
... freedom. Hence at abstract levels, right and duty appear parcelled out on different sides or in different persons. In the state, as something ethical, as the interpenetration of the substantive and the particular, my obligation to what ...
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 |