The Future in the Writings of Karl Marx: An Evaluative Interpretation Based on Primary Sources (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

By Joel Tabora

It was in critical humanistic intent that Marx attempted the overturning of Hegel's dialectic in Historical Materialism: understanding future human humanity as the necessary overcoming ( Aufhebung ) of private productivity which fails to satisfy man's human need. This study, based on a spectrum of primary sources from the young to the mature Marx, presents the critical function and the praxis-inductive role the future had in Marx's thought. The promise that continues to live in this thought is thereby explicitated. It is however a promise premised on a persistent idealism in Marx's claimed materialism which compromises the depth of man's human need in a future whose realization is necessarily (only) future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3820479775
• ISBN13: 9783820479775
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Length: 435 Pages