Collected Works 25: Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works #25

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

For the first time their writings are being made fully available in English, including manuscripts not published during their lifetime, their correspondence as well as supplementary notes, outlines and projects. Fully annotated and with bibliographical data and indexes. The set will be 50 volumes. Works from 1873-83. Engels. Anti-Duhring, with preparatory materials; Dialectics of Nature.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.

German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.

Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.

Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.

Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.

Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .

People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.

Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...

Reviews

[Mandy Partridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eugen Duhring was a law lecturer at the university of Berlin, who claimed to be a Marxist, but was also an anti-Semite.
Duhring fancied himself a bit of a Charles Darwin, and tried to make Systems of thought in sciences other than law, which he had not studied. Marx wrote to Engels and told him something had to be done about him, so Engels wrote the Anti-Duhring.
He criticised his sloppy system of thought, coining the term 'pseudo-science', calling it 'sublime nonsense' and 'cheap but bad like other German products'.
Duhring lost his job at the University of Berlin when Engels published this book. Since then, it has lost its impact, it was a book of the time to tackle a single issue, which was resolved.
Pseudo-science lives on, but its mostly banished from Universities.

[Nhân · Rating 5 out of 5]

2 outstanding philosophical works of Engels! The whole genius, the most wise of Engels lies in these two works when he defended the dialectical materialism and explained the most basic and most complex philosophical issues. These are the most favorite philosophical works and the most influence on me.