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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... modern capitalist society, instead of going on to write a philosophical treatise of his own. The few available texts on this theme, like the Theses on Feuerbach, the Preface (already mentioned) to A Contribution to the Critique of ...
... modern natural sciences.' A little farther on, he concludes: 'Engels became the man who perfected and crowned Marxism,' not only in virtue of his 'systematization' of Marx's thought, but also because his 'creative and original ...
... modern philosophy' and no more than that. 'Hegel is not the German or Christian Aristotle – he is the German Proclus. The “absolute philosophy” is the resurrection of Alexandrianism.'10 For the Young Hegelians, on the other hand, the ...
... modern life rather than being mere empty survivals from the past. But actually his procedure is very different. He does not show the rationale of these institutions by using historical and scientific concepts, concepts with some bearing ...
... method and the secret of the confusions which have enmeshed modern economic thought.35 But it is not only in The Poverty of Philosophy and other early writings that Marx employs the critique so ably reconstructed here.
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 |