Philosophy and myth in Karl Marx

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Philosophy and Myth in Kari Marx 2ND EDITION RÓBERT C. TUCKER Proféssor of Politics, Princeton University In Kari Marx's earlier writings (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework. His main preoccupation at this time was with man estranged from himself in an alienated world: a subjective, almost a religious theme. Professor Tucker, taking full account of these earlier writings, aims to give a critique and reinterpretation of Marx's thought. He shows how its origins are to be traced in earlier Germán philosophers, and in particular Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach. Reconstructing the genesis of Mcrxism in its founder's own mind, he clarifies Marx's mystifying contention that it represented Hegelianism turnéd 'on its head'. He then presents a new interpretation, based on close textual analysis, of the relation between the early philosophical system and the... Tovább

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Philosophy and Myth in Kari Marx 2ND EDITION RÓBERT C. TUCKER Proféssor of Politics, Princeton University In Kari Marx's earlier writings (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework. His main preoccupation at this time was with man estranged from himself in an alienated world: a subjective, almost a religious theme. Professor Tucker, taking full account of these earlier writings, aims to give a critique and reinterpretation of Marx's thought. He shows how its origins are to be traced in earlier Germán philosophers, and in particular Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach. Reconstructing the genesis of Mcrxism in its founder's own mind, he clarifies Marx's mystifying contention that it represented Hegelianism turnéd 'on its head'. He then presents a new interpretation, based on close textual analysis, of the relation between the early philosophical system and the subsequent materialist conception of history as expounded in the later and best known writings of both Marx and Engels. Against this background, he shows how Das Kapital may be regarded as a work belonging to the post-Hegelian mythical development of Germán philosophy. Thus the author provides what is essentially an extended exegesis of Marx, considering in turn the philosophical genesis of Marxism and the underlying continuity of Marx's thought from the early writings to Da$ Kapital: with the alienation theme central throughout. In the ten years since the book was first written, comments and criticisms have encouraged Professor Tucker to change his position somewhat. This is explained in a new concluding chapter which goes beyond the interpretative enierprise of the rest of the book to attempt an assessment of Marx in relation to contemporary concerns: first by presenting a critique of Marx's treatment of alienation and then by commenting on the moot problem of the continuing relevance of his socia4 and íconomic thought. On the former point, the author finds his views substantially unchanged, but on the latter, his views have matured and altered during the intervening years and he now finds the economic and social aspects of Marx's thought cqnsiderably more relevant than he did before. The portrait on the front, showing Kari Marx as a ycung man, is dated 1836. It is here reproduced from the frontispiece of Marx and Engels, Historische-Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Volume publishea in Berlin in 1932. Alsó issued in cloth Vissza