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MARX, EPICURUS, AND THE ORIGINS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM IBD

THE PERTINENT PRESS
03 / 2018
9781912142156
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Sinopsis

Diego Fusaro&rsquo,s monograph on the influence of Epicurus on Marx&rsquo,s thought is multilayered. It not only explains Epicurean thought and how it impacted the young Marx, but also manages to do unto Marx what Marx did unto Epicurus.Marx employed Epicurus&rsquo, critical stance toward Plato and Aristotle as an excuse, as it were, to drop not-so-subtle hints about the philosophy and politics of the Germany of his day.Fusaro, described by the influential paper La Repubblica (July 2013) as possibly the &ldquo,brightest star in the Italian philosophical firmament of our times&rdquo,, employs Marx&rsquo,s critique of the German present of Marx&rsquo,s time to propose a critique of our own times, a critique of economic libertarianism and moral libertinism.Fusaro&rsquo,s underlying argument seems to be that we live in times that are nothing but Epicurean, in which dogmatic and hedonistic liberalism dominates our lives, as pensée unique.This monograph combines a twofold approach: the exoteric and the esoteric. Exoterically, it analyses of the long-ignored University dissertation of the young Karl Marx and the influences of Greek Atomism on the molding of Marx&rsquo,s thought system. Esoterically, or by implication, it analyses our contemporary world.á

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