{"product_id":"marxs-attempt-to-leave-philosophy-daniel-brudney-9780674551336","title":"Marx's Attempt to Leave Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel Brudney traces the development of post-Hegelian thought from Ludwig Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer to Karl Marx's work of 1844 and his \u003ci\u003eTheses on Feuerbach\u003c\/i\u003e, and concludes with an examination of \u003ci\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e. Brudney focuses on the transmutations of a set of ideas about human nature, the good life, and our relation to the world and to others; about how we end up with false beliefs about these matters; about whether one can, in a capitalist society, know the truth about these matters; and about the critique of capitalism which would flow from such knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrudney shows how Marx, following Feuerbach, attempted to reveal humanity's nature and what would count as the good life, while eschewing and indeed polemicizing against \"philosophy\"--against any concern with metaphysics and epistemology. Marx attempted to avoid philosophy as early as 1844, and the central aims of his texts are the same right through \u003ci\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e. There is thus no break between an early and a late Marx; moreover, there is no \"materialist\" Marx, no Marx who subscribes to a metaphysical view, even in \u003ci\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, the text canonically taken as the origin of Marxist materialism. Rather, in all the texts of this period Marx tries to mount a compelling critique of the present while altogether avoiding the dilemmas central to philosophy in the modern era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Brudney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674551338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674551336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.48h x 6.44w x 1.26d","brand":"Daniel Brudney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086761242879,"sku":"9780674551336","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee21de4f-e486-4b2c-ac45-d6227c9ea47b.jpg?v=1769096423","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marxs-attempt-to-leave-philosophy-daniel-brudney-9780674551336","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}