The Concept of nature in Marx

Alternate Titles

• Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx

Description

**The Concept of Nature in Marx** (German: *Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx*) is a 1962 book by the philosopher Alfred Schmidt. First published in English in 1971, it is a classic account of Karl Marx's ideas about nature. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Nature_in_Marx))

Description

Schmidt's close reading of Marx's own writings and his relation of them to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Engels, Lenin, the early Lukacs and Sartre, enables him to establish the significance of the mature Marx's sense of the interpenetration of nature and society. He shows how Marxism cuts right across the traditional tendency to counterpose an abstract concept of man with an abstract concept of nature. Schmidt stresses the importance in Marxism of the development of industry and science as the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to their reconciliation (if positive) or to their mutual annihilation (if negative). He then both explores this mediation in history and shows how an awareness of its positive and negative possibilities is reflected in such writers as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.

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Other Editions

• Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von MarxEuropäische Verlagsanstalt1962-01-01
• The Concept of nature in MarxNLB1971
• Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von MarxPaperbackEuropäische Verlagsanstalt1971-01-01
• The concept of nature in MarxNLB1971-01-01
• The concept of nature in MarxNLB1971-01-01
• Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von MarxEuropäische Verlangsanstalt1974-01-01
• Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von MarxPaperbackEuropäische Verlagsanstalt1993-01-01