The Concept Of The Individual In The Thought Of Karl Marx

Author : Zhi Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031225918

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The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx by Zhi Li Pdf

This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic individual and materialised social relations in his later years. His thought proposes that ‘real individuals’ are the basis for an understanding of human society that promotes the emancipation of humankind. Marx’s philosophy has often been misunderstood as lacking a concept of the individual. In China, this misunderstanding not only relates to cultural and linguistic particularities (the word ‘individual’ is seldom used in Chinese), but also relates to a misleading view of socialism and communism. This book helps remedy this misunderstanding and draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism, and between Western and Eastern Marxism.

Author : John Torrance
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521440661

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Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas by John Torrance Pdf

Marx's undeveloped ideas about how society presents a misleading appearance which distorts its members' understanding of it have been the subject of many conflicting interpretations. In this book John Torrance takes a fresh, un-Marxist approach to Marx's texts and shows that a more precise, coherent and cogent sociology of ideas can be extracted from them than is generally allowed. The implications of this for twentieth-century capitalism and for recent debates about Marx's conceptions of justice, morality and the history of social science are explored. The author argues that Marx's theory of ideas is sufficiently independent of other parts of his thought to provide a critique and explanation of those defects in his own understanding of capitalism which allowed Marxism itself to become, by his own definition, an ideology.

Author : Bob Jessop,Russell Wheatley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415193281

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Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought by Bob Jessop,Russell Wheatley Pdf

Author : David McLellan
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034903370

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The Thought of Karl Marx by David McLellan Pdf

An introduction to the complex and often misrepresented ideas of Marx. Surveys his published work in each period in chronological sequence.

Author : Adam Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : UCAL:B3920580

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Marxism and the Human Individual by Adam Schaff Pdf

Today more than ever Marxism is profoundly in need of a full and precise modern reappraisal. In his belief that this may only be accomplished along with an examination of the "humanistic" young Marx, Adam Schaff presents in this volume an illumination of the thinker's early work and its relationship to the world-shaking economic philosophy that stemmed from it.

Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784782344

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The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx by Ernest Mandel Pdf

In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of focused chapters he provides an overview of debates and discussions of subjects that are central to Marxist economic theory. Mandel focuses on Marx's concept of "alienation" which gained much currency among Marxists in the twentieth century, traces the development of debates surrounding the labor theory of value, Marx's writings on communism and "crisis." These debates and discussions started by Marx have not ended and remain evermore pertinent to the present day. These writings are vital not just to academics but also to those who wish to interpret and to change the world.

Author : Ian Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317503217

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Marx and the New Individual (RLE Marxism) by Ian Forbes Pdf

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx’s attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx’s thought. The radical possibilities of individual agency in society are explored within a Marxian framework, and without recourse to the current fashions of methodological individualism or rational choice theory. In the context of the apparent antagonism between collectivist and individualist approaches to political explanation and social change, the author establishes that a ‘New Individual’, of singular importance for the understanding of contemporary society, can be identified. For the first time, the Grundrisse provides the basis of a major analysis of Marx’s thoughts on the individual. By illustrating the nature of the connections between collective existence and individual experience, Ian Forbes makes an important contribution towards the revitalization of socialist thought. He also develops a valuable counterpoint to rational actor models of politics and liberal theories of justice alike, by establishing the importance of a political theory that values human agency as much as it understands social and historical processes.

Author : Bob Jessop,Charlie Malcolm-Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
ISBN : 0415193273

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Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought by Bob Jessop,Charlie Malcolm-Brown Pdf

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 052133831X

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An Introduction to Karl Marx by Jon Elster Pdf

A critical introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought that stresses the relevance and importance of many of the philosopher's theories. It can be considered a standard basic reference work for the study of Marx in conjunction with the author's companion selection of Marx's writings, Karl Marx: A Reader.

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Humanism
ISBN : UOM:39015000194210

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Marx's Concept of Man ... by Erich Fromm Pdf

A new provocative view of Marx stressing his humanist philosophy and challenging both Soviet distortion and Western ignorance of his basic thinking.

Author : Justin P. Holt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483310367

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The Social Thought of Karl Marx by Justin P. Holt Pdf

Part of the SAGE Social Thinkers series, this brief and clearly-written book provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of Karl Marx, one of the most revered, reviled, and misunderstood figures in modern history. The book serves as an excellent introduction to the full range of Marx’s major themes—alienation, economics, social class, capitalism, communism, materialism, environmental sustainability—and considers the extent to which they are relevant today. It is ideal for use as a self-contained volume or in conjunction with other sociological theory textbooks.

Author : Stefano Petrucciani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030523510

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The Ideas of Karl Marx by Stefano Petrucciani Pdf

This book offers a complete presentation of the most important themes of Marx’s thought, following the development of Marx’s theory from the beginning to his death and offering a reconstruction and analysis that covers the whole of Marx’s life and works. Each chapter presents one of the central topics of Marx’s reflection: the confrontation with the Hegelian theory of the State (1843); the critique of political liberalism in the “On the Jewish Question”; the discovery of Political Economy in the Manuscripts of 1844; the new theory of history developed in The German Ideology; the political theory and the revolution of 1848; the critique of political economy from the Grundrisse to Capital; and the political thought of the last Marx (the Paris Commune and the critique of the German Social Democratic Party).Stefano Petrucciani is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.

Author : Allen Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134372577

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Karl Marx by Allen Wood Pdf

This is one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought. Wood explains Marx's views from a philosophical standpoint and defends him against common misunderstandings and criticisms. All the major philosophical topics in Marx's work are considered: the central concept of alienation; historical materialism and Marx's account of social classes; the nature and social function of morality; philosophical materialism and Marx's atheism; and Marx's use of the Hegelian dialectical method and the Marxian theory of value.

Author : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521096197

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The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri Pdf

Translation of Mishnato ha-òhevratit òveha-medinit shel òKarl Marks.

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351499804

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Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx by Robert C. Tucker Pdf

In Karl Marx's early writing (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. Marx's main preoccupation at this time was with man estranged from himself in an alienated world: a subjective, almost religious theme.Taking full account of these earlier writings, Robert Tucker critiques and reinterprets Marx's thought. He shows how its origins can be located in earlier German philosophers, in particular Kant, Hegel, and Feuerbach. Reconstructing the genesis of Marxism in its founder's own mind, he clarifies Marx's mystifying contention that Marxism represented Hegelianism turned 'on its head'. He then presents a new interpretation, based on close textual analysis, of the relation between Marx's early philosophical system and the subsequent materialist conception of history as expounded in the later and best known writings of Marx and Engels. Against this background, Tucker presents Das Kapital as a work belonging to the post-Hegelian mythical development of Germany philosophy. Considering in turn the genesis of Marxism and the underlying continuity of his thought from the early writings to Das Kapital, Tucker shows the theme of alienation is central throughout.In the years since the book was first written, comments and criticism have encouraged Tucker to change his position somewhat. This is explained in a new introduction that goes beyond the interpretative enterprise of the rest of the book to assess Marx in relation to contemporary concerns: first it presents a critique of Marx's treatment of alienation and then it comments on the moot problem of the continuing relevance of his social and economic thought. On the latter point his views have matured and altered during the intervening years and he now finds the economic and social aspects of Marx's thought considerably more relevant than he did before.