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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... religion – even to the point of stating that the former's critique of Christianity was 'a necessary complement to Hegel's speculative doctrine of religion', rather than its radical antithesis. Like the other members of the Doktorklub ...
... religion. Since this Idea is the presupposition of everything but cannot presuppose anything outside itself, it follows that the logico-deductive process must be one of creating objects. Hegel has to conjure the finite out of the ...
... religion (which 'has absolute truth as its content'). However, 'If religion is in this way the groundwork which includes the ethical realm in general, and the state's fundamental nature – the divine will – in particular, it is at the ...
... religion, law, etc., Monsieur Proudhon seeks to do for political economy.' First of all by dint of abstraction he reduces 'the substance of everything' into mere 'logical categories'; then, having hypostatized these abstractions into ...
... religion and idealist philosophy... In the realm of economic thought (where one might at first glance least suspect it) it is not difficult to see a parallel tendency at work. One might think it harmless enough to make abstraction of ...
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 |