Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx's Philosophy

Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx's Philosophy

Author: M. Tabak

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1137043148

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A scholarly exploration of Marx's thought without any favorable or critical ideological agendas, this book opposes the compartmentalization of Marx's thought into various competing doctrines, such as historical materialism, dialectical materialism, and different forms of economic determinism.


Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

Author: Kaan Kangal

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 3030343359

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Reading different or controversial intentions into Marx and Engels’ works has been a common but somewhat unquestioned practice in the history of Marxist scholarship. Engels’ Dialectics of Nature, a torso for some and a great book for others, is a case in point. The entire Engels debate separates into two opposite views: Engels the contaminator of Marx’s “new materialism” vs. Engels the self-educated genius of dialectical materialism. What Engels, unlike Marx, has not enjoyed so far is a critical reading that considers the relationship between different layers of this standard text: authorial, textual, editorial, and interpretational. Informed by a historical hermeneutic, this book questions the elements that structure the debate on the Dialectics of Nature. It analyzes different political and philosophical functions attached to Engels’ text, and relocates the meaning of the term “dialectics” into a more precise context. Arguing that Engels’ dialectics is less complete than we usually think it is but that he achieved more than most scholars would like to admit, this book fully documents and critically analyzes Engels’ intentions and concerns in the Dialectics of Nature, the process of writing, and its reception and edition history in order to reconstruct the solved and unsolved philosophical problems in this unfinished work.


Marx and Human Nature

Marx and Human Nature

Author: Norman Geras

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 178478236X

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In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both explanatory and normative functions. Over one hundred and thirty years after Marx's death, this book-combining the strengths of analytical philosophy and classical Marxism-rediscovers a central part of his heritage.


Marx and Whitehead

Marx and Whitehead

Author: Anne Fairchild Pomeroy

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0791485617

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Marx and Whitehead boldly asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of human existence. Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique of capitalism without understanding the philosophical system that underlies it. Alfred North Whitehead's work is used to forge a systematic link between process philosophy and dialectical materialism via the category of production. Whitehead's process thought brings Marx's philosophical vision into sharper focus. This union provides the grounds for Pomeroy's claim that the heart of Marx's critique of capitalism is fundamentally ontological, and that therefore the necessary condition for genuine human flourishing lies in overcoming the capitalist form of social relations.


Marxism and Human Nature

Marxism and Human Nature

Author: Sean Sayers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1134653832

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Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach and engages with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy.


Marx, the Body, and Human Nature

Marx, the Body, and Human Nature

Author: John Fox

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1137507985

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Marx, the Body, and Human Nature shows that the body and the broader material world played a far more significant role in Marx's theory than previously recognised. It provides a fresh 'take' on Marx's theory, revealing a much more open, dynamic and unstable conception of the body, the self, and human nature.


Dialectical Materialism and Historical Dialectics of Karl Marx

Dialectical Materialism and Historical Dialectics of Karl Marx

Author: Mbogo Wa Wambui

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2020-06-17

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 3346183343

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 19th Century, grade: A, University of Nairobi, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to explain Karl Marx’s dialectical materialism and historical dialectics. The stimulus of the work of Marx was the hope of a social revolution in his lifetime or in the future. Unlike British classical economics who aimed at the welfare of the capitalists, Marx worked to represent the interest of the wage earner. This is best represented in the "Communist Manifesto" of 1848. Marx called himself a materialist, though under Hegelian influence. In 1843, he went to France to study socialism. There, he met Engels, the manager of a factory in Manchester. From him, he came to know of English labour conditions and English economics. After taking part in the French and German revolutions of 1848, he sought refuge in England in 1849 from where he wrote and amassed knowledge.


How Language Informs Mathematics

How Language Informs Mathematics

Author: Dirk Damsma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-11

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9004395490

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In How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s dialectics allow us to understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. Knowledge of such systems allows for an innovative approach to economic modelling.