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Marx on religion / edited by John Raines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English. 2002
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Controversial literature.
- Religion.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883--Religion.
- Marx, Karl.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 242 pages)
- Other Title:
- On religion
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions.""Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum that ""religion is the opiate of the masses."" How can one reconcile such different perspectives on the power and ubiquity of religion?In this compact reader of Marx's essential thought on religion,
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; PART I: THE YOUNG MAN MARX; PART II: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE MATERIAL WORLD; PART III: BAD WORK/GOOD WORK; PART IV: THE CRITICISM OF RELIGION; PART V: OCCASIONAL WRITINGS; Marx; Engels; Personal Letters; Study Guide for Students
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781592138050
- 1592138055
- 9786612272240
- 6612272244
- 9781282272248
- 1282272241
- OCLC:
- 496008964
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