Marx's Concept of Man

Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781472521668
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

In publishing Marx's Concept of Man in 1961, Erich Fromm presented to the English-speaking world for the first time Karl Marx's then recently discovered Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Including the Manuscripts and many other philosophical writings by Marx as well as Fromm's own extended response, many of these writings have since become recognised as important works in their own right. Fromm stresses Marx's humanist philosophy and challenges both contemporary Western ignorance of Marx and Soviet corruptions of his work. Fromm's analysis of Marx's work and his dissemination of these neglected writings by Marx himself fundamentally altered the prevailing discourse about Marxism, revolutionising contemporary thought and providing a formative influence for the development of the New Left.

Table of contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 The Falsification of Marx’s Concepts
• 2 Marx’s Historical Materialism
• 3 Consciousness, Social Structure and the Use of Force
• 4 The Nature of Man
• 5 Alienation
• 6 Marx’s Concept of Socialism
• 7 The Continuity in Marx’s Thought
• 8 Marx, the Man
• Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
• Translator’s Note
• Preface to Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
• First Manuscript (Alienated Labor)
• Second Manuscript (The Relationship of Private Property)
• Third Manuscript (Private Property and Labor)
• From German Ideology
• Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
• Introduction to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law. Critique of Religion
• Reminiscences of Marx
• Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer
• Karl Marx Eleanor Marx-Aveling (A Few Stray Notes)
• Confession
• Karl Marx’s Funeral
• Afterword