Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

by Erich Fromm, Karl Marx

Overview

Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) is widely regarded as one of the most important psychoanalytical thinkers of the 20th century. Besides his influence on modern psychology, he was also a key member of the Frankfurt School, and became one of the founders of the socialist humanist movement. In publishing Marx's Concept of Man in 1961, Fromm presented to the English-speaking world for the first time Karl Marx's then recently discovered Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Including the Manuscripts and many other philosophical writings by Marx as well as Fromm's own extended response, many of these writings have since become recognised as important works in their own right. Fromm stresses Marx's humanist philosophy and challenges both contemporary Western ignorance of Marx and Soviet corruptions of his work. Fromm's analysis of Marx's work and his dissemination of these neglected writings by Marx himself fundamentally altered the prevailing discourse about Marxism, revolutionising contemporary thought and providing a formative influence for the development of the New Left.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472532152
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	354 KB

About the Author

Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) studied sociology and psychoanalysis. In 1933, he emigrated as a member of the Frankfurt School of social thinkers to the United States, moved to Mexico in 1950, and spent his twilight years between 1974 and 1980 in Switzerland. His books Fear of Freedom (1941) and The Art of Loving (1956) made him famous. Other well-known books are Marx's Concept of Man, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, and The Essential Fromm.

Karl Marx (1818-1883)was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary activist. Oneof the most widely influential - if often controversial - thinkers of the last200 years, his books include TheCommunist Manifesto and the unfinished multi-volume work Capital.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary activist. Oneof the most widely influential - if often controversial - thinkers of the last200 years, his books include TheCommunist Manifesto and the unfinished multi-volume work Capital.

Table of Contents

Preface\Part I: Marx's Concept of Man, Erich Fromm\1. The Falsificationof Marx's Concepts\2. Marx's Historical Materialism\3. The Problem ofConsciousness, Social Structure and the Use of Force\4. The Nature of Man \5. Alienation\6. Marx's Concept of Socialism\7. The Continuity in Marx'sThought\8. Marx, The Man\Part II:Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Karl Marx\Translator's Note \Preface\First Manuscript: Alienated Labour\Second Manuscript: TheRelationship of Private Property\Third Manuscript: Private Property andLabour\Private Property and Communism\Needs, Production and Division ofLabour\Money\Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy\FromGerman Ideology\Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of PoliticalEconomy\Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law. Critiqueof Religion\Remniscences of Marx, Paul Lafargue\Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer\ Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx-Aveling \Confession, Karl Marx\Karl Marx'sFuneral, Frederick Engels \Afterword, Erich Fromm.