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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... human subjectivity or 'essence' estranged by wagelabour, then, is no longer that of traditional metaphysics (Kant's 'transcendental ego', Hegel's Logos) but a function which mediates man's relationship both to nature and to his own kind ...
... human labour'. What is implicit in these arguments of the Manuscripts is in fact the first premise of genuine ... human faculties and human psychology which can be sensuously apprehended.' That is, just as inter-human or social ...
... human beings as a mass' (here the material of the state means human beings, the mass out of which the state is formed, its existence is explained here as resulting from the act of the Idea, as the 'assignment' of its own material ...
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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 |