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Marx's concept of nature rests on the philosophical platform of man's self- creation; reality is not a fixed, eternal datum but on the contrary is man-made. This idea, together with its necessary com- ponent of historical development, was taken from Hegel and given a materialist episte- mology.
Frankfurt School. The Concept of Nature in Marx ( German: Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx) is a 1962 book by the philosopher Alfred Schmidt. First published in English in 1971, it is a classic account of Karl Marx 's ideas about nature. [1]
Dec 1, 2013 · Such a dialectical synthesis, however, was a strength of Marx’s metabolic-rift theory from the start, which was explicitly based on an understanding of the labor process as the metabolic exchange between human beings and nature, and thus pointed to the importance of human society in relation to biogeochemical cycles, and to exchanges of matter and energy in general.36 The concept of ...
Marx's Concept of Man First published: Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing: New York., 1961. pp. 1 - 85 Transcribed: by Sam Berner. Contents 1. The Falsification of Marx's Concepts 2. Marx's Historical Materialism 3. The Problem of Consciousness, Social Structure and the Use of Force 4. The Nature of Man 5. Alienation 6.
A main thesis pursued in this book is that the concept of human nature plays a crucial role in Marx’s entire thought. 1 This concept, however, is not merely epistemological. Rather, its centrality emanates from the ontologically defined objective and subjective realities of the social universe Marx investigates.
Abstract. This essay surveys a century of debate on the Marx-nature question. It seeks to expose, critique and reformulate a set of foundational assumptions which, it is argued, have informed this debate. Three main arguments are put forward. First, it is suggested that successive attempts to expound a Marxian theory of nature have see-sawed ...
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature ( Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes. The alienation from the self is a consequence of being a mechanistic part of a social ...
