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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... spirit-god of Christian 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 ...
Karl Marx. They emanate directly out of the Idea or divine Spirit, they are its worldly development or actuality – being products of Reason in this sense, they can of course hardly help being totally rational in themselves. As Marx ...
... spirit could be expressed, Marx says, as one where 'the classes of civil society were identical with the Estates in the political sense, because civil society was political society; because the organic principle of civil society was the ...
... spirit from the argument put forward by Marx himself in August 1844 in his short essay Critical Notes on the Article 'The King of Prussia and Social Reform'. Here he stated for the first time the necessity for a socialist revolution ...
... spirit of those spheres, which is implicitly the spirit of the state, now behaves as such to itself and becomes real to itself as their inner truth. Thus the transition does not result from the particular nature of the family etc., and ...
Contents
xxxii | |
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 |