The Hegelian Structure of Marx’s Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Rosenberg, Paul M Rosenberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 332-413 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913811.2023.2316456 |
| OpenAlex | W4392166524 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
We can best understand Marx’s economic thought by seeing it as implicitly relying upon and reworking a Hegelian philosophy of history, which was deeply salvific and soteriological in its basic structure. Hegel’s philosophy of history reworked the Christian narrative of man’s fall, his redemption through Christ’s atonement, and his return to a state of reconciliation with God in the life of the Christian church. Thus, the loss of the organic form of community found in the Greek polis was a fall that was atoned for in the religious alienation found in both Judaism and Christianity, where man is treated as separated from a transcendent God. The reconciliation between man and God is found, finally, in the reconciliation of the modern, rational state. Early on Marx adopted Hegel’s philosophy of history, but its basic structure remains even in his mature economic work. There he envisions the loss of the organic unity of primitive communism, and the alienation of individuals from the larger social totality of feudalism and capitalism. Under communism, however, individuals are reconciled with the larger social whole through the collective mastery of the products of labor
Alienation · Capitalism · Christianity · Communism · Epistemology · Feudalism · Hegelianism · Philosophy of history · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Religious studies
The theory of capitalist development
Early modern conceptions of property
History and Class Consciousness
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Governing economy
Hegel's Ethical Thought
Hegel's Theory of the Modern State
Understanding Capital
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
Grundrisse
The Religious Dimension in Hegel’s Thought
Hegel's Political Writings
Property and Political Theory
Early Theological Writings
The Young Hegel, Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics
Idealism as Modernism
Hegelianism
Class and Civil Society
Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory
Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
Karl Marx's Theory of History
Hegel
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
The Human Condition
Elements of the philosophy of right
Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom
The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought
Marxism. An Historical and Critical Study
The Soviet Tragedy
Erkenntnis und Interesse
Philosophical arguments
Hegel’s Political Philosophy
Marxism and Totality
Peasants into Frenchmen
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |