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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... . In 1842, when Marx had come under Feuerbach's influence and already assumed a clearly materialist position, Engels published a pamphlet entitled Schelling and Revelation under the pen-name 'Oswald'.6 The attitude to.
... positions is clear. For Feuerbach 'the historical necessity and the justification of the new philosophy [i.e. the 'philosophy of the future'] therefore spring principally from the criticism of Hegel', not from further development of his ...
... position decisively rejected by Marx, not only in the closing pages of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in 1844, but even previously in a note to his Doctoral Dissertation of 1841.11 This is not the place to try to consider in ...
... positions reflected Marx's thought were to have notable repercussions when, at last, Marx's own youthful philosophical work was published. This happened, as we saw, largely between 1927 and 1932. The major early works – the Critique of ...
... positions wholly distinct from those of historical materialism.20 Hence he was in the best possible position to understand the true import of Marx's criticism of Hegel in the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, and to see why ...
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 |