A subtle and scholarly treatment of Marx's materialism. Schmidt's work can be recommended as the best treatment of this much misunderstood topic ... Essential reading.

- David McLellan, New Statesman

Refreshingly free from dictatorial intellectualism ... An exciting scholar.

Radical Philosophy

Unexpected popular relevance today when a whole new generation is beginning to ask fundamental questions about man's relationship to nature.

New Society

In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature'. In Marx, industry and science are the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.
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Examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature'.
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"Of unexpected popular relevance today when a whole new generation is beginning to ask fundamental questions about man's relationship to nature." -New Society

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781681473
Publisert
2014-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
286 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
252

Forfatter
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Alfred Schmidt was a German social scientist and the author of History and Structure: An Essay on Hegelian-Marxist and Structuralist Theories of History.