Marx's Critique of Politics 1842-1847 / Gary Teeple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teeple, Gary, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The author traces Marx's intellectual development through a careful analysis of the texts. He demonstrates an unmistakable continuity throughout the period, arguing that Marx consciously worked out his critique of politics from a well-defined starting point to a logical conclusion.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Marx's starting point: Epicurus and the ontology of mind; Idealist or materialist; Critique and its development; 1 The State as Rational and Real: articles from the Rheinische Zeitung, 1842-43; The first use of critique; Right and privilege; Law and laws; Press freedom and censorship; The state and the Christian state; The political state and the estates; The political state and representation; The contradiction and its resolution; Conclusions; 2 State and Civil Society, or the Question of Sovereignty: the 1843 critique of Hegel; Sovereignty: the one or the many?

Bureaucracy: universality as mere formLegislatures: unity or mediated conflict?; The upper house; The lower house; True democracy: the solved riddle; Conclusions; 3 Political and Social Emancipation: articles from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1843-44; Consciousness of freedom and its realization: the letters; The meaning of political emancipation and the prerequisite of social emancipation: 'On the Jewish Question'; The means to social emancipation: the introduction to the Critique of Hegel; The political point of view and the meaning of industrial strife: 'Critical Marginal Notes'

Conclusions4 Private Property and Communism: the Paris manuscripts and 'Comments on James Mill, ' 1844; The first manuscript: wages, profit, rent, and alienated labour; The second manuscript: the antithesis of capital and labour; The third manuscript: the transcendence of self-estrangement; Conclusions; 5 The Critique of Politics: writings from 1845 to 1847; The French Revolution or the history of the origin of the modern state; The rights of man; The representative state: the constitutional and the democratic; Law; Taxes; The state and civil society; Social transformation and communism

Conclusions6 Conclusions; The development of the critique of politics; The preconditions of Marx's critique; Marx and the end of modern political theory; APPENDIX: Alienated Labour, Division of Labour, and Private Property; NOTES; GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS; SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8390-7

OCLC:

1129203176