Philosophy Of Marx Giovanni Gentile by Giovanni Gentile 9781956887082, 9781956887099, 1956887083, 1956887091 instant download after payment.

Here I collect two critical studies on the often criticized philosophy of Karl Marx, which today is passionately discussed by followers and opponents alike without any hope of agreement on the philosophy’s special doctrines or overall strategy. Was he a materialist, or not? Which doctrine is closest to that fortunate type of historical materialism popularized around the world by Marx? Which is closest to his revolutionary idea? Is there really a relation between this historical materialism and metaphysical materialism, in the strictest sense of the word?

In the first of the two studies,1 I analyze and criticize historical materialism (or at least what Marx meant by historical materialism) as a theory of history—I did not attempt to search for which philosophy was inherent to the theory. On the contrary, I wrote that Marx’s “historical materialism is no place to pose questions concerning spiritualism and materialism.” Additionally, I agreed with Croce’s position that the self-supplied influences of historical materialism should be considered unreliable. I also refrained from denying that Marx and Engels were materialists, regardless of whether their theory of history could be described as such. I instead concluded that they, as materialists and followers of the “philosophical movement, meant as a reaction to idealism, started by the Hegelian Left and continued by Moleschott, Vogt, and Büchner,” could have thought of their reaction to Hegel’s philosophy as materialistic by simple analogy! In my second study, I examine and analyze the philosophy of Marx as metaphysical materialism. Have I therefore changed my opinion?

Truly, no. It will be helpful to explain how and why my second study has not obliged me to change the thoughts expressed in the first study in the slightest, and which I will now repeat here with only faint stylistic revisions.