Book contents
- Hegel’s Century
- Hegel’s Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Beginning
- Part II The First Generation
- Part III The Second Generation
- 6 Marx’s View of Religious and Political Liberation
- 7 Kierkegaard’s Analysis of the Forms of Despair and Alienation
- 8 Dostoevsky’s Criticism of Modern Rationalism and Materialism
- 9 Bakunin’s Theory of Anarchy
- 10 Engels’ Criticism of Feuerbach and Classical German Philosophy
- 11 Hegel’s Long Shadow in the History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
6 - Marx’s View of Religious and Political Liberation
from Part III - The Second Generation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2021
- Hegel’s Century
- Hegel’s Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Beginning
- Part II The First Generation
- Part III The Second Generation
- 6 Marx’s View of Religious and Political Liberation
- 7 Kierkegaard’s Analysis of the Forms of Despair and Alienation
- 8 Dostoevsky’s Criticism of Modern Rationalism and Materialism
- 9 Bakunin’s Theory of Anarchy
- 10 Engels’ Criticism of Feuerbach and Classical German Philosophy
- 11 Hegel’s Long Shadow in the History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 6 is dedicated to the work of the young Karl Marx. It begins with an analysis of Marx’s “Introduction to the Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” which reveals the influence of both Hegel and Feuerbach. Marx sees his own work as continuing the criticism of religion that Feuerbach explored and expanding it to the social-political sphere. A close reading is given of the different kinds of alienation that Marx identifies in the “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,” which use Hegel’s Phenomenology as the point of departure. An account is given of the polemic between Marx and his one-time friend Bruno Bauer, which is played out in The Holy Family, a work coauthored by Marx and Engels. Finally an analysis is provided of The German Ideology with its polemic with the Young Hegelians and its theory of alienation.
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- Hegel's CenturyAlienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution, pp. 143 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021