Divergent Paths is the first volume of a groundbreaking three-volume
work. Its purpose is to explore the relationship between Hegel and
Marx; to define the relationship between Hegel and Engels; and to
distinguish between the theories of Marxism and Engelsism. Marx used
Feuerbach towards the critique and ultimate transformation of Hegel's
phenomenology and humanism. This transformation, which cut out Hegel's
idealism by identifying the environment in which people produced their
sustenance as the subject of history, marks the genesis of historical
materialism. Marx continued to use Hegel's logical categories. In
chapter three of Divergent Paths, Norman Levine conducts an in depth
study of Marx's 1841 doctoral dissertation, The Difference Between
Democritus' and Epicurus' Philosophy of Nature. It is the center of
gravity and controversy of Levine's study. Placed alongside Hegel's
Philosophy of History, Levine isolates the categories Marx
appropriated from Hegel to show, conclusively, that Marx was not a
dialectical materialist. Levine then claims that Engels totally
distorted the Hegelian legacy, and this debasement is enshrined in his
1887 essay 'Ludwig Feuerbach and The End of Classical German
Philosophy.' Levine brilliantly locates Marxism as the theory of Marx,
and Engelsism the theory of Engels. According to Levine both embodied
a separate view of history and society, and their contradictions are
expressive, in part, of their divergent receptions of Hegel. This is
an analysis like no other published to date with two more volumes
planned. Philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists and
historiographers of Marx and Engels cannot afford to miss this study.
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ISBN
9780739154304
Publisert
2015
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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