Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory

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by Warren Breckman

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published April 2001, 348 pages, paper

ISBN 0521003806

New in paper (S01)

This is the first major study of Marx and the Young Hegelians in twenty years. The book offers a new interpretation of Marx's early development, the political dimension of Young Hegelianism, and that movement's relationship to political and intellectual currents in early nineteenth-century Germany. The book draws together an account of major figures such as Feuerbach and Marx, with discussions of lesser-known but significant figures, as well as such movements as French Saint-Simonianism and "Positive Philosophy."

Contents

Introduction
I. At the End of Idealism: From 'Nihilism' to 'Positive Philosophy'
II. The Transcendent Sovereign and the Political Theology of Restoration
III. Ludwig Feuerbach and Christian Civil Society
IV. The Social and Political Discourse of Personality, 1835-1840
V. Pantheism, Social Question and the Third Age
VI. Arnold Ruge: Radical Democracy and the Politics of Personhood, 1838-1843
VII. Karl Marx: From Social Republicanism to Communism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography