The Concept of nature in Marx
By: [translated from the German by Ben Fowkes]. --
Publisher: NLB
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883; Philosophy of nature
Other titles: Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx
Description: Schmidt's close reading of Marx's own writings and his relation of them to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Engels, Lenin, the early Lukacs and Sartre, enables him to establish the significance of the mature Marx's sense of the interpenetration of nature and society. He shows how Marxism cuts right across the traditional tendency to counterpose an abstract concept of man with an abstract concept of nature. Schmidt stresses the importance in Marxism of the development of industry and science as the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to their reconciliation (if positive) or to their mutual annihilation (if negative). He then both explores this mediation in history and shows how an awareness of its positive and negative possibilities is reflected in such writers as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.
Notes: Translation of Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx. *** Bibliography: p. [241]-246.

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