Erich Fromm

Marx's Concept of Man (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of how Marx's ideas have been misused and misunderstood, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Escape from Freedom. In the Western world, and especially in the United States, Karl Marx is perceived as the spiritual godfather of Lenin and Stalin-someone bent on creating a state where everyone worships a centralized bureaucracy. Social philosopher Erich Fromm argues that Marx has been entirely misrepresented and misunderstood, and that Marx's ideas have been misappropriated to further causes antithetical to his true intentions. Fromm's study presents Marx as a humanist and social scientist. Painstakingly traveling through Marx's oeuvre, Fromm shows how Marx's real goal was to eliminate man's alienation, and allow individuals to live and appreciate a life of freedom. Furthermore, Fromm believes, Marx would have considered the Communist governments of Russia and Cuba as wrong-headed. Marx's Concept of Manalso includes a selection of Marx's Early Writings, brought to English-speaking readers for the first time in 1961. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm, with rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480402096
• Artikelnr.: 44662341

Autorenporträt

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a bestselling psychoanalyst and social philosopher whose views about alienation, love, and sanity in society-discussed in his books such as Escape from Freedom, The Art of Loving, The Sane Society, and To Have or To Be?-helped shape the landscape of psychology in the mid-twentieth century. Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Jewish parents, and studied at the universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg (where in 1922 he earned his doctorate in sociology), and Munich. In the 1930s, he was one of the most influential figures at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. In 1934, as the Nazis rose to power, he moved to the United States. He practiced psychoanalysis in both New York and Mexico City before moving to Switzerland in 1974, where he continued his work until his death.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Marx's Concept of Man, Erich Fromm
1. The Falsification of Marx's Concepts
2. Marx's Historical Materialism
3. The Problem of Consciousness, Social Structure and the Use of Force
4. The Nature of Man
5. Alienation
6. Marx's Concept of Socialism
7. The Continuity in Marx's Thought
8. Marx, The Man
Part II: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Karl Marx
Translator's Note
Preface
First Manuscript: Alienated Labour
Second Manuscript: The Relationship of Private Property
Third Manuscript: Private Property and Labour
Private Property and Communism
Needs, Production and Division of Labour
Money
Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy
From German Ideology
Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law.
Critique of Religion
Reminiscences of Marx, Paul Lafargue
Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer
Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Confession, Karl Marx
Karl Marx's Funeral, Frederick Engels
Afterword, Erich Fromm