Overview
- Reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy
- Draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism
- Proposes thought of Marx that promotes the emancipation of humankind
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dialectics, History and Marx’s Concept of the Individual
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The History and Logic of Marx’s Concept of the Individual
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The Normative Significance of Marx’s Concept of the Individual
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Situating the Marx’s Concept of the Individual in the Present
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About this book
This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic individual and materialised social relations in his later years. His thought proposes that ‘real individuals’ are the basis for an understanding of human society that promotes the emancipation of humankind. Marx’s philosophy has often been misunderstood as lacking a concept of the individual. In China, this misunderstanding not only relates to cultural and linguistic particularities (the word ‘individual’ is seldom used in Chinese), but also relates to a misleading view of socialism and communism. This book helps remedy this misunderstanding and draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism, and between Western and Eastern Marxism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Zhi Li is Professor of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, and was previously Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, Belgium, and University of Bristol, UK. His previous publications include: The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx (2014, in Chinese), and The Ethical Critique: Karl Marx and Present World (2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx
Authors: Zhi Li
Translated by: Jiaxin Liu, Ben Cross
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22591-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22590-1Published: 09 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22593-2Published: 26 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22591-8Published: 08 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 293
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Political Sociology