The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx Zhi Li

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• ISBN 10: 3031225910
• ISBN 13: 9783031225918
• Author: Zhi Li

This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic individual and materialised social relations in his later years. His thought proposes that ‘real individuals’ are the basis for an understanding of human society that promotes the emancipation of humankind. Marx’s philosophy has often been misunderstood as lacking a concept of the individual. In China, this misunderstanding not only relates to cultural and linguistic particularities (the word ‘individual’ is seldom used in Chinese), but also relates to a misleading view of socialism and communism. This book helps remedy this misunderstanding and draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism, and between Western and Eastern Marxism.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Dialectics, History and Marx’s Concept of the Individual
2. Dialectics as a Methodological Principle
3. History as the Object of Totality
Part II. The History and Logic of Marx’s Concept of the Individual
4. The Concept of the Individual in the Context of the Young Hegelian School
5. The Concept of the Individual in Marx’s Theory of Estrangement
6. The Concept of the Individual From the Perspective of History
7. The Concept of the Individual and Marx’s Philosophy
Part III. The Normative Significance of Marx’s Concept of the Individual
8. Theoretical Criticism and the Concept of the Individual
9. A Critical-Based Theory of Individual Emancipation
10. Moral Criticism and the Good
Part IV. Situating the Marx’s Concept of the Individual in the Present
11. Chinese Socialist Practice and the Revival of Marx’s Concept of the Individual
12. Studies on Marx’s Concept of the Individual and China’s Modernisation

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