Schmidt's close reading of Marx's own writings and his relation of them to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Engels, Lenin, the early Lukacs and Sartre, enables him to establish the significance of the mature Marx's sense of the interpenetration of nature and society. He shows how Marxism cuts right across the traditional tendency to counterpose an abstract concept of man with an abstract concept of nature. Schmidt stresses the importance in Marxism of the development of industry and science as the mediation between historical ...
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Schmidt's close reading of Marx's own writings and his relation of them to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Engels, Lenin, the early Lukacs and Sartre, enables him to establish the significance of the mature Marx's sense of the interpenetration of nature and society. He shows how Marxism cuts right across the traditional tendency to counterpose an abstract concept of man with an abstract concept of nature. Schmidt stresses the importance in Marxism of the development of industry and science as the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to their reconciliation (if positive) or to their mutual annihilation (if negative). He then both explores this mediation in history and shows how an awareness of its positive and negative possibilities is reflected in such writers as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. This book is a contribution to the philosophical interpretation of Marx and is concerned with the importance of Marx's concept of nature in the formulation of historical materialism; the author's reading of Marx's own writings, particularly the Grundrisse, and his discussion of Marx's positions in relation to those of Kant, Hegel, Engels, Lenin, Lukacs, and Sartre, enables him to establish the significance of Marx's view of the interpenetration of nature and society (tan cover with gold lettering, previous owner's names on front endpaper; brown dust jacket with yellow border, yellow & white lettering, is worn along edges; otherwise a bright, clean copy)