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Historical Materialism: Marx

Kandiyali, Jan

Authors

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Dr Jan Kandiyali jan.kandiyali@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Political Theory



Contributors

John Shand
Editor

Abstract

This chapter discusses the philosophical side of Marx's thought as well as some of the major debates about it in the secondary literature. It is organized into three sections. The first examines Marx's early writings, focusing, in particular, on his views on religion, the limitations of political emancipation and the dehumanizing conditions of work under capitalism. The second examines Marx's materialist theory of history, the view that history is characterized by the development of productive power to free people from material scarcity. The third examines the problematic area of Marx's ethics. Marx's remarks on this topic are scattered and unsystematic. Consequently, they generate a number of difficult questions about how, and in what way, he criticizes capitalism. The chapter concludes with a discussion of Marx's vision of the good life under communism

Citation

Kandiyali, J. (2019). Historical Materialism: Marx. In J. Shand (Ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (236-260). Wiley

Publication Date 2019-04
Deposit Date Sep 23, 2021
Publisher Wiley
Pages 236-260
Series Title Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Book Title A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Chapter Number 9
ISBN 9781119210047
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1624495
Publisher URL https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/A+Companion+to+Nineteenth+Century+Philosophy-p-9781119210047


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