Marx and Human Nature Refutation of a Legend

Name: Marx and Human Nature Refutation of a Legend
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ISBN: 9780860910664

ISBN-10: 0860910660

ISBN-13: 9780860910664

Edition: 1983

Authors: Norman Geras

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“Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so.”That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Norman Geras. In it, he places the sixth of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach under rigorous scrutiny. He argues that this ambiguous statement—widely cited as evidence that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845—must be read in the context of Marx’s work as a whole. His later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both explanatory and normative functions.The belief that Marx’s historical materialism entailed a denial of the conception of human nature is, Geras writes, “an old fixation, which the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 7/17/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 126
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English