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Marx and Freedom (Great Philosophers)

By Terry Eagleton

Book information

Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Year
1997
ISBN
0753801876, 9780753801871
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
751 kB (769350 bytes)
Pages
66\66
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Terry Eagleton explains that freedom, for Marx, entailed release from commerciallabour, "a kind of creative superabundance over what is materially essential". Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. Marx's utopia was a place in which labour is increasingly automated, emancipating the wealth of sensuous individualdevelopment so that "savouring a peach [is an aspect] of our self-actualisation as much as building dams".

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