Karl Marx’s Writings On Alienation

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The theory of alienation occupies a significant place in the work of Marx and has long been considered one of his main contributions to the critique of bourgeois society. Many authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have erroneously based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology, by contrast, Marcello Musto has concentrated his selection on the most relevant pages of Marx’s later economic works, in which his thoughts on alienation were far more extensive and detailed than those of the early philosophical manuscripts. Additionally, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism, but also his description of communist society. This comprehensive rediscovery of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an indispensable critical tool for both understanding the past and the critique of contemporary society. Titles Published......Page 7 Titles Forthcoming......Page 9 About the Editor......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Contents......Page 15 Note on Sources......Page 17 Part I MARCELLO MUSTO INTRODUCTION......Page 19 1 The Origin of the Concept......Page 20 2 The Rediscovery of Alienation......Page 21 3 The Other Conceptions of Alienation......Page 25 4 The Debate on the Conception of Alienation in Marx’s Early Writings......Page 31 5 The Irresistible Fascination of the Theory of Alienation......Page 38 6 Alienation Theory in North American Sociology......Page 42 7 The Concept of Alienation in Capital and Its Preparatory Manuscripts......Page 45 8 Commodity Fetishism......Page 50 9 Communism, Emancipation and Freedom......Page 53 References......Page 61 Part II KARL MARX WRITINGS ON ALIENATION......Page 66 2 Early Philosophical and Political Writings......Page 67 1 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (1844)......Page 68 2 Comments on James Mill’s “Elements of Political Economy” (1844)......Page 75 3 The Holy Family (1845)......Page 78 4 The German Ideology (1845–1846)......Page 79 5 Wage Labour and Capital (1849)......Page 80 6 Speech at the Anniversary of “The People’s Paper” (1856)......Page 83 3 From the Grundrisse to the Theories of Surplus Value......Page 85 1 Grundrisse: Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (1857–1858)......Page 86 2 The Original Text of “a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy” (1858)......Page 113 3 On the Critique of Political Economy (Manuscript 1861–1863)......Page 115 4 Theories of Surplus Value (1862–1863)......Page 126 4 Capital and Its Preparatory Manuscripts......Page 139 1 Economic Manuscripts (1863–1865)......Page 140 2 Capital, Volume One, Unpublished Chapter VI (1863–1864)......Page 142 3 Capital, Volume One (1867)......Page 159 4 Capital, Volume Three (1864–1875)......Page 167 Selected Further Reading......Page 172 Index......Page 173