- Author
- Year
- 2017
- Title
- The Democratic Theory of the Early Marx
- Journal
- Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
- Volume | Issue number
- 99 | 4
- Pages (from-to)
- 443-464
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Abstract
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This article presents a novel reading of Marx’s early, pre-1844, democratic theory, and its connection with his early views on alienation. It argues, contra established readings, that Marx had a properly developed theory of alienation prior to his famous Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844; that this theory is not centred solely on a critique of the modern state, or Hegel’s conception thereof; that it consists in suppressing a human species-essence for participation in collective deliberation and decision-making via people’s subjection to external power and domination; that it therefore applies widely both to the modern state and the capitalist economy, as well as to feudalism; and that this sheds light on the connections between Marx’s theory of alienation on the one hand, and his early conception of non-alienated society, democracy, on the other. This will help us better to understand the relationship of Marx’s to other, especially radical enlightenment, political thought.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/359d0650-1607-48c5-a5d2-92cec6c22320
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