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Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy
Harvard University Press, 1998 Cloth: 978-0-674-55133-6 | eISBN: 978-0-674-02895-1 Library of Congress Classification B3305.M74B78 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 193
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Daniel Brudney traces the development of post-Hegelian thought from Ludwig Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer to Karl Marx's work of 1844 and his Theses on Feuerbach, and concludes with an examination of The German Ideology. Brudney focuses on the transmutations of a set of ideas about human nature, the good life, and our relation to the world and to others; about how we end up with false beliefs about these matters; about whether one can, in a capitalist society, know the truth about these matters; and about the critique of capitalism which would flow from such knowledge. Brudney shows how Marx, following Feuerbach, attempted to reveal humanity's nature and what would count as the good life, while eschewing and indeed polemicizing against "philosophy"--against any concern with metaphysics and epistemology. Marx attempted to avoid philosophy as early as 1844, and the central aims of his texts are the same right through The German Ideology. There is thus no break between an early and a late Marx; moreover, there is no "materialist" Marx, no Marx who subscribes to a metaphysical view, even in The German Ideology, the text canonically taken as the origin of Marxist materialism. Rather, in all the texts of this period Marx tries to mount a compelling critique of the present while altogether avoiding the dilemmas central to philosophy in the modern era. Abbreviations Introduction 1. Feuerbach's Critique of Christianity 2. Feuerbach's Critique of Philosophy 3. Bruno Bauer 4. The 1844 Marx I: Self-Realization 5. The 1844 Marx II: The Structure of Community 6. The 1844 Marx III: The Problem of Justification 7. The Theses on Feuerbach 8. The German Ideology I: More Anti-Philosophy 9. The German Ideology II: The Picture of the Good Life and the Change from 1844 10. The German Ideology III: The Critique of Morality (and the Return to Philosophy) Conclusion Notes Reviews of this book: "[Marx's Attempt to Leave Philosophy] is plainly the work of a thoughtful and intelligent philosopher. The discussions of Bruno Bauer and Marx's writings of 1844-6, in particular, are valuable resources for students of German philosophy of the 1840s." "Brudney's work offers some fascinating insights into the world of the Young Hegelians from whence Marx came. It also makes some subtle points about the epistemology of moral theory and about the communitarian aspects of Marx's vision that are important for contemporary philosophy." See other books on: 1818-1883 | 19th century | Marx, Karl | Philosophy, German | Social See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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