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Hegel, Marx, and the English State by David MacGregor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>This work, now brought back into print, is a radically revised intellectual portrait of Hegel and Marx that challenges standard interpretations of their political theory and places their political thought directly into social and historical context. David MacGregor reveals the revolutionary content of Hegel’s social theory and the Hegelian themes that underlie Marx’s analysis of the English state in Capital, and shows how the transformation of the Victorian state in the nineteenth century influenced the mature Marx to reclaim Hegelian arguments he had earlier abandoned. These ideas included a theory of politics and social class that coloured Marx’s view of capitalist and working-class opposition to government reform initiatives.</p>MacGregor criticizes interpretations of state action that present government solely as a tool of capitalist and patriarchal interests. Noting the essential significance of child labour in the growing industrialization during Hegel’s and Marx’s time, the author contends that `alienation,’ as the two thinkers understood the term, assumes a labour force in which many workers are socially powerless children and women. Given these conditions, the centr

Who reads Hegel, Marx, and the English State?

Author

David MacGregor

Publisher

University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802078421

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Political Science, Western