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Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend by Norman Geras (1983) is a concise argument against the view that Marx did not believe there was something such as human nature, in particular the confusion surrounding the sixth of the Theses on Feuerbach. Wood, Allen (2004) [1983]. Karl Marx (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend is a 1983 book by the political theorist Norman Geras, in which the author discusses the philosopher Karl Marx's theory of human nature with reference to Marx's Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach.
The concept of human nature is the belief that all human individuals share some common features. [152] In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Marx describes his position on human nature as a unity of naturalism and humanism. [153] Naturalism is the view that Man is part of the system of nature. [153]
To say that man’s physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.” [2] However, prior to the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 Marx and Engels still lacked a biological grounding for their theory of dialectical materialism.
Marx further develops the idea of alienation, arguing that a worker is alienated in four ways: From the product he produces; From the act by which he produces this product; From his nature and himself; From other human beings; Marx starts with the fact that the more a worker produces, the more impoverished he becomes.
In Marx's Concept of Man, Erich Fromm provides a detailed analysis of Karl Marx's ideas about human nature and how those ideas informed his economic and political theories. Fromm shows how Marx's conception of man as a "species-being" who is fundamentally social and cooperative, rather than selfish and individualistic, shaped his vision of a ...
Marx/Engels Collected Works (also known as MECW) is the largest existing collection of English translations of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.Its 50 volumes contain publications by Marx and Engels released during their lifetimes, many unpublished manuscripts of Marx's economic writings, and extensive personal correspondence.
By conceptualizing the complex, interdependent processes of material exchange and regulatory actions that link human society with non-human nature as "metabolic relations," Marx allowed these processes to be both "nature-imposed conditions" and subject to human agency, [3]: 381 a dynamic largely missed, according to Foster, by the reduction of ...