Marx and the Critique of Humanism

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Marxs writings refuse the notion of an unchanging or pre-given essence of what it means to be human. However, even if Marxs concept of an open humanity is plausible, it generates further questions: how can the continuous transformation of human nature be compatible with the idea of a full development of the individual Is transformation equivalent to development By what criteria (immanent, universal or otherwise) can the adequacy of any particular form of human existence be determined

This book addresses these questions in relation to shifting contemporary scholarship on Marxs view of the human. It engages with the critics of Marx's thinking; his novel idea of transindividuality; the ways in which the human informs and is transformed by Marxs critical theory of capitalist society; Marx on nature and the ecological dimensions of his thought; humanism and the critique of political economy; and humanism in relation to Marxs materialism. In this way, Marx and the Critique of the Human illuminates Marxs ideas in the context of a broader concern with the human across the contemporary philosophical landscape.

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London, UK. He is the author of From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society: Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx (2024) as well as texts in Radical Philosophy, European Journal of Social Theory, Language Sciences, Valenciana, the SAGE Handbook of Marxism & the SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory.