Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism)

Download or read book Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism) written by H.T. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy, philosophy and the natural sciences. While elements of the methods of some of these thinkers – most conspicuously from the work of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel – were present in Marx’s thought, he achieved a new synthesis of procedural, epistemological and ontological methods.