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Alfred Schmidt


Born
in Berlin, Germany
May 19, 1931

Died
August 28, 2012


Alfred Schmidt was a German philosopher. He studied history and English as well as classical philology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and later philosophy and sociology. He was a student of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer and gained his doctorate with his The Concept of Nature in Marx.

Schmidt was professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt from 1972 and was made emeritus in 1999. Schmidt's primary research topics were the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, philosophy of religion, and Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy.
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The Concept of Nature in Marx

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History and Structure

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Der Begriff der Natur in de...

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El concepto de naturaleza e...

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Zur Idee der Kritischen The...

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Die Wahrheit im Gewande der...

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Idee und Weltwille: Schopen...

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Durchgeistete Natur: Ihre P...

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“The development of the forces of production was never an end in itself for Marx. The saving of labour-time, he said, should in the last analysis result in a restructuring of man: The free time – which is both leisure time and time for higher activity – has naturally changed its owner into another Subject, and as this other Subject he then enters directly into the process of production.70 Thilo Ramm points out correctly that this theory of the origin of a new man constitutes the innermost kernel of Marx’s teaching.”
Alfred Schmidt, The Concept Of Nature In Marx

“What is remarkable is that Marx, precisely because he agreed with Hegel in rejecting the construction of abstract utopias, became probably the greatest utopian in the history of philosophy”
Alfred Schmidt, The Concept Of Nature In Marx

“Man can work only as nature does, that is by changing the form of matter.”
Alfred Schmidt, The Concept Of Nature In Marx

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