The Young Marx's Political Theory: New Light on an Old Debate

You are invited to "The Young Marx's Political Theory: New Light on an Old
Debate", a seminar sponsored by the Centre for Twentieth-Century Cultural
Studies, Historical Materialism, and Verso.
Participants: STATHIS KOUVELAKIS, author of PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: FROM
KANT TO MARX (Verso, 2003), MICHAEL LOWY, author of THE THEORY OF REVOLUTION
IN THE YOUNG MARX (Brill Academic Press, 2003), and GARETH STEDMAN JONES,
introducer and editor to the new Penguin edition of THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO.
Date: Friday 14 March 2003
Time: 2.30pm
Place: Room 10c, King's College London, Strand, London WC2 (Holborn
Underground Station).




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The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx


Michael Löwy

This book proposes a Marxist analysis of young Marx's intellectual
evolution, from left neo-Hegelianism to his new philosophy of praxis. It
distinguishes itself from most other books on the early Marx by its object:
the theory of (proletarian) revolutionary self-emancipation, and its method:
to understand the movement of Marx's political and philosophical ideas in
relation to the most radical currents in the labour movement of his time
(beginning with Chartism and the uprising of the Silesian weavers in 1844).
The central theoretical argument of the author is that Marx's philosophy of
praxis - first formulated in the Theses on Feuerbach - is at the same time
the founding stone of a new world view, and the methodological basis for the
theory of revolutionary self-emancipation.


Readership: Students, lecturers or any people interested in politics, the
labour movement, Marx, as well as academic libraries.


Michael Löwy, Ph.D. (1974) in Human Sciences, Sorbonne, is Research Director
in Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He
has published on Marx, Lukács and Walter Benjamin, as well as (with Robert
Sayre) Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity (Duke, 2001).



… March 2003
… ISBN 90 04 12901 4
… Hardback (x, 206 pp.)
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