By Sean Sayers
What does Marx suggest via 'alienation'? What function does the concept that play in his critique of capitalism and his imaginative and prescient of a destiny society?
Marx and Alienation offers intensive with probably the most very important philosophical assumptions of Marx's paintings. It units Marx's account of alienation and its overcoming within the context of the Hegelian philosophy from which it derives, and discusses it when it comes to modern debates and controversies. It demanding situations different contemporary bills of Marx's concept, and indicates that wisdom of Hegel's philosophy is key for an realizing of significant topics in Marx's philosophy.
Marx and Alienation explains and discusses Marx's principles in an unique and available style and makes an incredible contribution to Marxist philosophy.
Review:
'This first-class e-book manages to express, with compelling readability, the most profound and nuanced philosophical topics; it is helping restoration the dialecticity of Marxist concept by way of elaborating its Hegelian origins. it's the most sensible booklet i've got stumble upon at the Marxist notion of 'alienation'.' - Tony McKenna, Marx & Philosophy evaluate of Books
'Sean Sayers' e-book is a powerful try to provide a defence of the Hegelian size of Marx's proposal, and during it to shield Marx's concept of alienation.' - Dan Swain, overseas Socialism magazine
'Sayers offers a robust argument for the deep-lying Hegelianism of Marx's suggestion, sheds new mild on a few well-trodden parts, and writes in an obtainable variety that a lot Marx scholarship nonetheless lacks. What he proves, chiefly else, is that when very much has been written on Hegel-Marx dating, this fashion of impending Marx's philosophical principles is still the main fertile box of inquiry for Marx scholarship today.' - Jan Kandiyali, Radical Philosophy
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15 By the time of writing Capital (1867) Marx no longer regards work as such as distinctively human. He acknowledges that animals also produce. However, he distinguishes between purely natural and specifically human forms work. He argues that the labour of animals is driven by immediate need and is purely ‘instinctive’. He distinguishes this from ‘labour in a form that stamps it as exclusively human’ as follows. A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells.
Such production is his active species-life. Through it nature appear as his work and his reality. The object of labour is the objectification of the species-life of man: for man reproduces himself [Sich verdoppelt] not only intellectually, in his consciousness, but actively and actually, and he can therefore contemplate himself in a world he himself has created. (Marx, 1975e, 329; Marx and Engels, 1970a, 89) The story of the Fall In this way, work involves both the separation, the alienation, of self from nature, but also the drive to overcome this separation and make ourselves at home in the world.
Even a child’s first impulse involves this practical alteration of external things; a boy throws stones into the river and now marvels at the circles drawn in the water as an effect in which he gains an intuition of something that is his own doing. This need runs through the most diversiform phenomena up to that mode of self-production in external things which is present in the work of art. (Hegel, 1975, 31) According to Hegel these different forms of activity involve different degrees of freedom.
