Abstract
Taking its cue from recent scholarship on the editorial and publication history of Marx's literary remains, this paper proposes a new reading of the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts"--one based, not on the distorted versions of the text that were constructed and disseminated by Marx's twentieth-century editors, but on the manuscripts as Marx compiled them. The established literature holds that these manuscripts represent Marx's attempt to combine Feuerbach's theory of the human essence with his own investigations of political economy, and that they articulate a coherent philosophical position that Marx either remained committed to or broke decisively with. This paper locates them, not in relation to Marx's larger body of work, but in relation to the specific contexts and debates in which they were designed to intervene.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 109-140 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Nineteenth-Century Prose |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |