The Concept Of Nature In Marx (radical Thinkers)
by Alfred Schmidt /
2014 / English / EPUB
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InThe Concept of Nature in Marx
The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines
humanity’s relation to the natural world as understood by the great
philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are
‘part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial
separation from Nature is itself part of their nature’. In Marx,
industry and science are the mediation between historical man and
external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual
annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature
in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in
the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and
Ernst Bloch.
, Alfred Schmidt examines
humanity’s relation to the natural world as understood by the great
philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are
‘part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial
separation from Nature is itself part of their nature’. In Marx,
industry and science are the mediation between historical man and
external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual
annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature
in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in
the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and
Ernst Bloch.