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The guiding premise of this thesis is that the concept of historical time constitutes a distinct philosophical problem for Karl Marx’s work. Marx does not examine the relationship between time and history in his work, rendering the historicist framework of linear, progressive time the overriding framework through which he understands this relationship. However, the larger problem is that, despite this lack, the philosophical originality and critical function of Marx’s work is in no small measure defined by the contribution it makes towards our understanding of this relationship. Therefore, this thesis argues that it is necessary to construct a concept of historical time out of Marx’s work. Methodologically, this begins with an outline of the broad contours of the materialist concept of history in The German Ideology, and a temporal reading of the historical act – the creation of the means of human life – on which this concept is based. This reading is then ontologically grounded, first by Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, in order to establish how the act as such temporalises, and then by Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, in order to grasp how this temporalisation

Who reads Marx and the Concept of Historical Time?

Author

George Tomlinson

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Social Sciences