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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... Feuerbach's work between his criticism of religion and materialism. As his most important biographer has observed, in those years 'Engels greeted Feuerbach's work with joy, but without suspecting that it called into question Hegel's ...
... (Feuerbach's influence on it notwithstanding) this study was far more than a mere 'historical document of Marx's personal development'. Yet his treatment of this major work consists of a few superficial pages, devoted mainly to Feuerbach's ...
... Feuerbach's influence on the Critique. That he did have some influence on it is undeniable. The phrase Marx employs where he defines Hegel's philosophy as 'logical mysticism' must surely derive from Feuerbach's analogous description of ...
... Feuerbach's influence is more complicated than appears at first sight. Della Volpe, for instance, insists on the fact that Feuerbach's criticism (unlike Marx's) was restricted to reproaching Hegel with 'empty formalism'. Feuerbach was ...
... Feuerbach can be held to have made is a reapplication of one aspect of this tradition in the new context, the way in which he brought it to bear on Hegelianism. I believe the vital element in this vexed question – the edge which cuts ...
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 |