The critical value of György Márkus’s philosophical anthropology. Rereading >Marxism and Anthropology: The Concept of 'Human Essence' in the Philosophy of Marx<

  • This article critically re-reads György Márkus’s seminal >Marxism and Anthropology< in light of its recent reissue with an introduction by Hans Joas and Axel Honneth. Joas and Honneth problematically identify the normative source of Márkus’s position as an a-historical and extra-natural account of the human. In fact, when the human essence is thought as natural while also historical, developing new powers and needs through changing strategies of socially organized work, Marx’s materialist conception of history can be used to generate a critique of social organizations, relations, and structures that constrain rather than promote such development. Such constraint on developing powers can be read as >alienation< from the human essence. Márkus’s work develops this reading of Marx in a textually sensitive way, but his analysis of alienation in the >Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844< focuses on the individual when such analysis could in fact be profitably extended to apply to groups and the species as whole. [Taken from Publisher's Website: http://thesiseleven.com/2015/02/23/issue-126-february-2015/]

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Author:Aaron Jaffe
Parent Title (English):Thesis Eleven, Vol. 126 (No. 1, February 2015), pp. 38-51.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2015
Release Date:2015/12/14
Format:no download and copy possible
IdNo:Jaffe_A_2015
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):no access / nicht zugänglich
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