ENGELS @ 200: Reading Friedrich Engels In The 21st Century

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Friedrich Engels was one of the most important German thinkers of the 19th century and his writings are still important today. Addressing the pressing issues of his time, the broadly interested scholar Engels would write about many different topics, and thereby not only pave the way for a science-based socialism, but also for further studies in sociology, history, and philosophy. To highlight the value and impact of Engels’ work as well as emphasize its relevance for major issues that will determine the 21st century, the present anthology assembles scholars from different countries and research fields to discuss how to read and gain insights from reading his works in our time. It also attempts to stimulate further research about Engels, who 200 years after his birth deserves to be fully brought out of the shadow of his friend and colleague Karl Marx. Cover Contents Engels @ 200: An Introduction (Frank Jacob) Notes on Dialectics and History in Friedrich Engels (Vitor Bartoletti Sartori) Friedrich Engels and Revolution Theory: The Legacy of a Revolutionary Life (Frank Jacob) The Gens, Military Conquest, and the Formation of the Manchu State: Understanding the Pre-State Manchu Society from an Engelsian Perspective (1550 – 1651) (Jia Feng) A Contribution of Engels to the Critique of Political Economy (Renildo Souza) The Psychology of Friedrich Engels: From Materialistic Theories of Manual Labor to Criticism of Empiricism and Ideology (David Pavón-Cuéllar) Engels and Evolutionist Ethnology (Maria Rosário) Friedrich Engels’s Philosophy of Nature. An Interpretation of the Concept of the Dialectics of Nature (Gottfried Schweiger) The Relationship between Art and Politics: On the Letter of Friedrich Engels to Margaret Harkness (Henrique Wellen) Friedrich Engels: From the ›Woman Question‹ to Social Reproduction Theory (Vincent Streichhahn) In the Shadow of Karl Marx: Perception and Reception of Friedrich Engels in the Digital Age (Riccardo Altieri) Post-Truth Coronavirus Outbreak: Engels’s Perspective (Nuruddin Al Akbar) Engels as Course Reading in the 21st Century History Classroom (Alexander Maxwell) Contributors