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Философия и социална теория в Кройцнахския ръкопис на Карл Маркс (част 1)
Philosophy and Social Theory in Karl Marx’s Kreuznach Manuscript (Part 1)

Author(s): Ivan Katsarski
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Marx; Hegel; Kreuznach manuscript; civil society; private property; monarchy; aristocracy; bureaucracy; democracy.

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with Marx’s Kreuznach manuscript (summer, 1843). The manuscript has two basic layers of analysis: a general philosophical one and a specific one related to social theory; they are interconnected but not of equal value. The author argues that Marx’s general philosophical scheme, regardless of Marx’s claims, does not differ in principle from the Hegelian one; this is a source of great conceptual difficulties, which are latent in this manuscript but, logically, appear in later works as well. From a contemporary point of view, the value of the manuscript lies in its social theoretical analysis, which includes ideas on the structure of history, of modern society and of modern democracy.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 78-89
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian