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Aims':
- Methodological introduction to the School
- Presentation of some general problems of Marxist thought
- Introduction to Marxism and Ecology
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. Dialectics of totality.
Humanity and Nature in Marx's thought
Introduction: The evolution of Marx's thought on living nature
A. The criticism of Malthus: limits of capitalism and limits of the Earth
B. The divide between cities and countryside
C. Social-natural metabolism and the metabolic break
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