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Chapter 1 - Marx on the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2025

Christoph Schuringa
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Northeastern University, London
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Marx first calls for the actualization of philosophy in his earliest philosophical writings: the Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy and Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. This chapter examines those texts. It shows that Marx’s simultaneous praise of Epicurus for a great insight and condemnation for his shrinking from that insight relate to the problem of thought and reality, and that Marx’s identification of a ceaseless oscillation between the positions of a ‘liberal party’ and ‘positive philosophy’ already points the way beyond his own Young Hegelian context to the genuine actualization of philosophy.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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