- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classic; Reprint edition (Nov 29 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140445749
- ISBN-13: 978-0140445749
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.1 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 381 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel's "Doctrine of the State", he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his Letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are his controversial essay, "On the Jewish Question and the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts", where Marx first made clear his views on alienation, the state, democracy and human nature. Brilliantly insightful, Marx's "Early Writings" reveal a mind on the brink of one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history - the theory of Communism. This translation fully conveys the vigour of the original works. The introduction, by Lucio Colletti, considers the beliefs of the young Marx and explores these writings in the light of the later development of Marxism.
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Karl Marx (1818-1883). The core of Marx's economic analysis found early expression in the Okonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844 (Economic and Political Manuscripts of 1844). There, Marx argued that the conditions of modern industrial societies invariably result in the estrangement (or alienation) of workers from their own labor. In his review of a Bruno Baier book, On the Jewish Question (1844), Marx decried the lingering influence of religion over politics and proposed a revolutionary re-structuring of European society. Much later, Marx undertook a systematic explanation of his economic theories in Das Kapital (Capital) (1867-95) and Theorien uber den Mehrwert (Theory of Surplus Value) (1862).
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4.0 out of 5 stars
To Learn More About A Legend,
By Andrew Crosson (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Penguin Classics Early Writings (Paperback)
This book gives the reading a kind of "before they were stars" approach. It provides a good spring board to seeing how Marx metamorphasized from Das Capitol into the Communist Manifesto. I recommend this book for anyone who is looking to get to the base of and learn more about this influential write and philosopher.
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Not for beginners,
By Brett (South Dakota) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Penguin Classics Early Writings (Paperback)
As someone who thought he had a relatively good grasp of what Marxist philsophy is comprised of, it came as something of a surprise that this text was so incomprehensible. This was the first actual Marx I have ever set out to read. I believed that _Early Writings_ might a good place to start (you know: start at the beginning, as they say). At any rate, I would encourage someone who is a novice at this sort of thing to start with another book. From the very start I had a difficult time determing exactly what Marx was getting at. The first 200 pages are a refutation to a Hegelian concept of the state. If you are not familiar with the writings and ideas of Hegel, you will not want to read that particular work. The second half of the book is more approachable, but not what I would term "accessible" by any means. I would recommend this only to people that already have extensive knowledge of Marx's terminology and belief systems. Without this prerequisite, you might as well be reading Latin.
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indispensable...,
By Y. Hermeto - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Penguin Classics Early Writings (Paperback)
Indispensable for a correct reading of Karl Marx. To fully understand his point of view and critics you need to cover the early writings first, so that you won't form a wrong idea what Marxism is about, like most people usually do.
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AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF MARX'S WRITINGS,
By Steven H. Propp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Penguin Classics Early Writings (Paperback)
This is a collection of writings from Karl Marx (1818-1883) from the period of 1833-1834, when he had gotten married, and worked for a series of radical newspapers. The works include "Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State"; "On the Jewish Question"; "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right"; "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)," and more. The book also contains a 50-page Introduction, which places the works in their historical context.He identifies the task of his time as "the ruthless criticism of the existing order" (pg. 207). In "On the Jewish Question," Marx (whose Jewish parents were secular and assimilated) sarcastically states, "Money is the jealous god of Israel," and "Exchange is the true god" of the Jewish people (Pg. 239). His own atheism is boldly stated: he argues that man makes religion, religion does not make man; religion is "the opium of the people" (pg. 244), and that atheism is "a negation of God, through which negation it asserts the existence of man." (Pg. 357) He states that the right of the landowners "can be traced back to robbery." (Pg. 309) He defines communism as the positive supersession of private property as human self-estrangement, and "the complete restoration of man to himself as a social... being." (Pg. 348) One of his most famous quotations is included, from "Concerning Feuerbach": "The philosophers have only INTERPRETED the world, in various ways; the point is to CHANGE it." (Pg. 423) While these writings are not a particularly useful "Introduction" to Marxist thought (the The Communist Manifesto remains that), they're useful for interested students to want to follow the development of Marx's ideas over time. 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Translation Difficulties,
By Tristano Casazza - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Penguin Classics Early Writings (Paperback)
Part of the function of this compilations inaccessibility, on which other reviewers have commented, is the nature of the translation. For instance, although I have read several translations of "On the Jewish Question," I found this translation to be the most difficult. A beginner would do much better to start with "The Marx-Reader," which includes "Capital" part I as well as other important works by Marx and Engels.Rarely do I find a Penguin Classic that is true to the Classic off which Penguin is cashing in. |
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