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* Methodological introduction to the School<br> | * Methodological introduction to the School<br> | ||
* Presentation of some general problems of Marxist thought<br> | * Presentation of some general problems of Marxist thought<br> | ||
* | * What is Marx's materialism? | ||
=== Marx's break: The Thesis on Feuerbach=== | === Marx's break: The Thesis on Feuerbach=== | ||
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'''C.''' The progress in History | '''C.''' The progress in History | ||
=== | === Humanity and Nature in Marx's thought === | ||
==Reading Materials== | ==Reading Materials== | ||
* Ernest Mandel, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/marx-hist/app.htm The Place of Marxism in History, "Appendices": "The Eight Main Periods of the “History” of Marx" and "A Few Events of Marx’s Time"], IIRE, Amsterdam, 1983 | * Ernest Mandel, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/marx-hist/app.htm The Place of Marxism in History, "Appendices": "The Eight Main Periods of the “History” of Marx" and "A Few Events of Marx’s Time"], IIRE, Amsterdam, 1983 | ||
Latest revision as of 13:19, 4 November 2022
Aims:
- Methodological introduction to the School
- Presentation of some general problems of Marxist thought
- What is Marx's materialism?
Marx's break: The Thesis on Feuerbach
Introduction: Marx as an historical figure
A. "Praxis”: Critique of vulgar materialism
B. Man's essence. History and society
C. "Self-emancipation": how to change the world.
Marx's Historical Materialism. 1859 Prologue and Letters
Introduction: Presentation of the text
A. Social relations of productions. The new starting point
B. The notion of an "economic base"
C. The progress in History
Humanity and Nature in Marx's thought
Reading Materials
- Ernest Mandel, The Place of Marxism in History, "Appendices": "The Eight Main Periods of the “History” of Marx" and "A Few Events of Marx’s Time", IIRE, Amsterdam, 1983
- Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, 1845
- Karl Marx A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, "Introduction" (extract), 1843
- Karl Marx, Abstract from the Preface of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (extract), 1859
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (extracts), Also:, 1846