By Manuel Sacristán

The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán: From Communism to the hot Social pursuits offers a considerable collection of the most major writings on Marx, Marxism, and radical social concept by way of Manuel Sacristán, Spain’s most vital Marxist thinker. even if discussing Marx’s highbrow improvement and philosophical perspectives, exploring significant concerns in Marxist thought or analysing the problem to modern Marxism from feminism, pacifism and environmentalism, Sacristán emerges in those pages as either a massive Marx pupil and an impressive social theorist in his personal right.

The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán makes to be had in English for the 1st time some of the key texts through an excellent, but overlooked, Marxist philosopher.

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298. Marx ’ s Scientific Work and his Notion of Science 41 tent people, and notes the discrepancies between the praise and the condemnation. He observes that some critics who have been favourable to him praise his method for its ‘analytical’ or ‘deductive’ rigour, while others criticise it for being ‘dialectical’; some reproach him for his ‘idealism’, while others laud his way of discussing the empirical material. Marx attempts to resolve these discrepancies among the critics with a distinction between method of inquiry and method of presentation.

28 The Young-Hegelian motif will not form part of the title in 1867, as it had in 1859, although it will continue to be present as part of the subtitle on the cover of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. What Marx’s Science Owes to Its Philosophical Inspirations The best thing that Marx owes to his youthful Hegelianism and his ‘rediscovery’ of Hegel in the 1850s is the characteristic virtue of his intellectual work, that is to say, its totality [globalidad], that programme which aims at a complete comprehension of social reality, a complete comprehension of the social whole.

29 The sweepingly systematising theoretical programme came to Marx from the Hegelian ideal of knowledge, enriched (and hindered) by the empirical inclination [vocación] of the ‘normal’ scientist, which, although it has not been studied here this evening, was one of Marx’s two main gains in abandoning speculative philosophy (the other was his revolutionary commitment [vocación]). Ricardo’s epistemological influence, and that of the English economists in general, probably had more of an effect on Marx’s reaching the normal science of his age, the proper appreciation of experience, the acquisition of analytical habits, and so on.

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