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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... Philosophy of Right, and particularly from its treatment of the state. In the latter, Hegel is concerned with a number of highly determinate historical institutions such as hereditary monarchy, bureaucracy, the Chamber of Peers ...
... right of primogeniture – they all reappear in his argument not as historical realities of this world but as ... philosophy is not to be explained by factors outside his thought (his personal compromises with authority, etc.) as the Young ...
... Philosophy (1847), 'The Metaphysics of Political Economy', this connection ... philosopher, sees in actual relations nothing but the incarnation of these ... right in saying that in the final abstraction, the only substance left is ...
... Philosophy of Right. Introduction, both published in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher of February 1844 and written soon after the Critique. This part of Marx's work displays the same sharp difference from the stance of even the most ...
... Philosophy of Right and the Politics of Our Time' in the Deutsche Jahrbücher of August 1842. And in this article he had commented on Hegel's 'transfiguration' of the empirically given institutions of the Prussian state into moments of ...
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 |