Studies of the Paris Manuscripts The Turning Point of Marx
This book is devoted to the studies of Karl Marx’s Paris Manuscripts and presents a new interpretation of early Marx, arguing that his transition to maturity can be found in these manuscripts, and specifically in Comments on James Mill, which was drafted
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Studies of the Paris Manuscripts The Turning Point of Marx
Studies of the Paris Manuscripts
Lixin Han
Studies of the Paris Manuscripts The Turning Point of Marx
Lixin Han Department of Philosophy Tsinghua University Beijing, China Translated by Kaiyuan Hong Translation is financed by “Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences”.
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Preface The Paris Manuscripts: Turning Point of Marx’s Thought
This work is dedicated to the study of young Marx’s Paris Manuscripts. Yet it on no account aims to add another dispensable work to the multitude of secondary studies on the Paris Manuscripts but rather to advance a new explanation of early Marx, namely, that it is in the Paris Manuscripts – Notes on James Mill in particular – that Marx accomplishes a transition from his early to his mature period. The hallmark thereof is the transition of Marx’s framework from individual to society, so that the explanatory principle of society shifts from man’s intrinsic elements to extrinsic economic relations. This conversion eventually leads to the advent of historical materialism.
Three Explanatory Models of the “Karl Marx Problem” The subject matter of this work is the question of when Marx becomes Marx or, put another way, whether there is a so-called turning point in the evolution of his thought. At first glance, this question seems to merely address a demarcation of Marx’s thought, yet it is de facto determined by the judgment of the essence of Marx’s thought and is, in this rega
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