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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... Jewish Question, as having culminated in the French Revolution, the revolution which established juridical and political equality only upon the basis of a new and even deeper real inequality. 'The constitution of the political state ...
... Jewish Question, the contrast between 'political society' as a spiritual or heavenly community and 'civil society' as society fragmented into private interests competing against each other. The moment of unity or community has to be ...
... Jewish Question, 'is the difference between the tradesman and the citizen, between the daylabourer and the citizen, between the landowner and the citizen, between the living individual and the citizen'. On the other hand, once the ...
... Jewish Question). Marx's conception was that the state 'as such' is properly speaking only the modern state, since it is only under modern conditions that the detachment of state from society occurs: only then does the state come to ...
... Jewish Question and the Introduction – texts more widely read and acknowledged as important, and somewhat more accessible in style. More significant still, it is the Critique which connects Marx's view of the Hegelian dialectic to his ...
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 |