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

[Huw Lloyd]

Thanks Andy.

On 25 November 2016 at 23:38, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
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