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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... Hegelians at this time in seeing Feuerbach exclusively as a continuer of Strauss's work on religion – even to the point of ... Hegelian philosophy is the completion of modern philosophy' and no more than that. 'Hegel is not the German or ...
... Hegelianism itself. They are insistent upon the theme of Hegel's 'personal compromise' with the Prussian state. And this ... Hegelian dialectic itself – that is, two aspects of the 'method'. These are the 'rational kernel' which must be ...
... Hegelian milieu well and instantly took over all of 'Oswald's' most significant ideas and made them his own.13 These seemingly quite minor events were destined to have important consequences. Bielinsky and Herzen were among the most ...
... Hegel's Doctrine of the State and the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts – were printed at that time. By then the crystallization of 'dialectical materialism' as the official philosophy of the U.S.S.R. and the European communist ...
... Hegelian movement made him perfectly conscious of the origins of Engels's critique of Hegel in the radical-liberal ... Hegel's Doctrine of the State, and to see why (Feuerbach's influence on it notwithstanding) this study was far more ...
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 |