[Xmca-l] Re: MCA Issue 3 article for discussion Re-started

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

This is not a one-off event, Huw. I writing his PhD 
Dissertation on the philosophy of Nature of Democritus and 
Epicurus he was taking a position opposite to that of Hegel. 
The dissertation was published in 1841 when Marx was aged 
22. He credits Feuerbach with the impulse to take a stronger 
materialist line against Hegel with the publication of the 
Essence of Christianity in 1841. His notes on Hegel's 
Philosophy of Right (1843) show that he was trying to take a 
dismissive attitude to Hegel, and it is only in the Theses 
on Feuerbach and The German Ideology of 1845 where the 
outlines of Marx's distinctive critique of Hegel are clearly 
present, as David notes, in the form of a critique of 
Feuerbach. It is reasonable to suppose that he was working 
out this position at the time he wrote the 1844 Manuscripts. 
However, he is still working on how to use Hegel as he 
writes his Political Economy material in 1857-58, after 
which his position is pretty settled. However, his turn to 
Hegel in 1881 to understand calculus, only 2 years before 
his death, demonstrate that this was an unfinished task.

Andy

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Andy Blunden
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On 26/11/2016 2:58 AM, Huw Lloyd wrote:
> ...
>
> Interesting too to consider Marx's mode of analysis, which pertains to
> something I'm currently drafting.  Does anyone know when Marx specifically
> studied and re-fashioned Hegel's dialectic?
>
> Best,
> Huw