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Human solidarity in Hegel and Marx

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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:04 authored by Andrew Chitty
Karl Marx's account of the source of 'solidarity between humans' can be extended into an account of the source of 'human solidarity' much more easily than G. W.F. Hegel. For Hegel the source of human solidarity lies in the fact that humans are self-aware beings and that self-awareness has an inherently 'universal' character. The chapter describes the emergence of the view that humans are 'species-beings' in Marx's writings. It shows that how this view is closely related to Hegel's view of human beings as conscious subjects who are rationally driven to become universally self-conscious. In his 1842 writings Marx effectively adopts Hegel's idea that subjects actualize their freedom by establishing and participating in the institutions of right, culminating in the state. In the 1843 'Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State' Marx develops a slightly different, though characteristically Hegelian view of the relationship between the human essence and the properly constituted socio-political association.

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  • Published

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Routledge

Page range

120-146

Pages

286.0

Book title

Reassessing Marx's social and political philosophy: freedom, recognition, and human flourishing

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781138226203

Series

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • Centre for Social and Political Thought Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Jan Kandiyali

Legacy Posted Date

2018-07-06

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-12-12

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