The Concept of Nature in Marx
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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The Concept of Nature in Marx
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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The Concept of Nature in Marx

The Concept of Nature in Marx

by Alfred Schmidt
The Concept of Nature in Marx

The Concept of Nature in Marx

by Alfred Schmidt

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781681473
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 01/14/2014
Series: Radical Thinkers , #8
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition 9

Introduction 15

1 Karl Marx and Philosophical Materialism 19

A The Non-ontological Character of Marxist Materialism 19

B Towards a Critique of Engels's Dialectics of Nature 51

2 The Mediation of Nature through Society and Society through Nature 63

A Nature and the Analysis of Commodities 63

B The Metabolism of Man and Nature: Historical Dialectic and 'Negative' Ontology 76

3 Society and Nature, and the Process of Knowledge 95

A The Laws of Nature and Teleology 95

B Marx's Theory of Knowledge 107

C Historical Practice and the Constitution of the World 113

D The Categories of the Materialist Dialectic 123

4 Utopia and the Relation Between Man and Nature 127

Appendix 165

Notes 197

Bibliography 241

Index 247

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