The Concept of Nature in Marx
Published on 7. January 2014
252 pages
978-1-78168-510-5 (ISBN)
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In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature'. In Marx, industry and science are the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-510-5 (9781781685105)
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Alfred Schmidt was a German social scientist and the author of History and Structure: An Essay on Hegelian-Marxist and Structuralist Theories of History.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Introduction
- 1: Karl Marx and Philosophical Materialism
- A. The Non-ontological Character of Marxist Materialism
- B. Towards a Critique of Engels's Dialectics of Nature
- 2: The Mediation of Nature through Society and Society through Nature
- A. Nature and the Analysis of Commodities
- B. The Metabolism of Man and Nature: Historical Dialectic and 'Negative' Ontology
- 3: Society and Nature, and the Process of Knowledge
- A. The Laws of Nature and Teleology
- B. Marx's Theory of Knowledge
- C. Historical Practice and the Constitution of the World
- D. The Categories of the Materialist Dialectic
- 4: Utopia and the Relation between Man and Nature
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
