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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... significance of these questions may be better grasped if one reflects upon the cultural and philosophical climate of the time. Kautsky, Plekhanov, Bernstein, Heinrich Cunow and the others had grown up into a world profoundly different ...
... significance his work had had for them. Of the two founders of historical materialism, it was Engels who had developed what one might call its 'philosophical-cosmological' aspect, its philosophy of nature; it was he who had successfully ...
... significance is far wider. 'In making abstraction of particular elements in a situation,' he writes, 'there are two roads along which one can proceed.' The first is that which 'builds abstraction on the exclusion of certain features ...
... earthly existence in society.' The transformation was carried through by the French Revolution, through which the 'class distinctions in civil society became merely social differences in private life of no significance in.
... significance. Civil society, claims Marx, can acquire political meaning and efficacy only by an act of 'thoroughgoing transubstantiation', an act by which 'civil society must completely renounce itself as civil society, as a private ...
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 |