Empiricism, Science, and Philosophy inThe German Ideology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georg H Fromm (corresponding author), Manuel Almeida (0000-0003-2179-4738), Manuel S Almeida |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-32 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking Marxism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08935696.2014.980673 |
| OpenAlex | W2154290895 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Ever since the full text of The German Ideology appeared in 1932 it has been subject to persistent misreading due to the fact that the idiosyncratic nature of this work—as merely a rough, unedited, and unfinished draft as well as a fiercely polemical text—has been neglected. As a result, the majority of scholars have tended to claim that Marx and Engels in this work propose an empiricist or positivistic conception of human history and society. A critical reading that is sensitive to the peculiar nature of this text reveals that these common interpretations are wholly ungrounded and that, on the contrary, the authors develop their polemic against the Young Hegelians from an outlook that is deeply indebted to the Hegelian philosophical legacy (even though paradoxically the latter espouses an absolute idealistic viewpoint
Absolute (philosophy · Empiricism · Epistemology · German · German idealism · German philosophy · Hegelianism · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Transcendental number · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
A Dictionary of Marxist thought
Marxism and the Status of Philosophy
Marx’ Method, Epistemology, and Humanism
The End of Philosophy, the Origin of "Ideology"
Marx and the Disillusionment of Marxism
Die Vernunft in der Geschichte
From the German Ideology
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Die letzten Philosophen
Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy
Is there a Future for Marxism
The End of Philosophy, the Origin of Ideology
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |