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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... relationship to Feuerbach and Hegel and the part these men played in the formation of Marx's thought. A whole generation of Marxist theorists knew next to nothing (through no fault of their own) of Marx's early philosophical writings ...
... relationship between formal and dialectical logic, between Marxism and the natural sciences, Marx's relationship to Hegel – these were only a few of the many problems posed and supposedly answered with exclusive reference to statements ...
... relationship between subject and predicate. The 'universal' or 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 ...
... relationship of thought to being can only be as follows: being is the subject, thought the predicate'.30 But in itself such influence does not mean much. Feuerbach is generally a thinker of secondary importance compared to Hegel ...
... relationship between the 'uncritical idealism' of Hegel's premises and the 'uncritical positivism' of his conclusions. From this point of view, Feuerbach's limitations are seen as analogous to those of Kant, who reproached Leibntz with ...
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 |