Critique of Earth

Van Leeuwen, Arend Theodoor|Leeuwen, Arendt Theodoor Van

ISBN 10: 0227170393 / ISBN 13: 9780227170397

Verlag: JAMES CLARKE CO LTD, 2003

&Uumlber den AutorArend Theodoor van Leeuwen is associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics in the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Holland). Publications: Christianity in World History, 1964 Prophecy In a Technocratic Era, 1968 Cri. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5897642

Inhaltsangabe:

The second series of van Leeuwen's Gifford Lectures examines the young Karl Marx's developing thought, of importance to those studying Marx and those involved in Marxist-Christian dialogue. The author examines the "transmutation" from the critique of heaven into the critique of earth. His thesis is that Marx's critique of religion is seen not in his opposition to "religion", but in his ideas on political economy. This thesis is undergirded with analysis of Marx's critique of political economy from 1842 to "Das Kapital". Marx's biography works itself out at three levels of critique: from religion via politics to political economy. "Das Kapital" sums up the whole of Marx's thought. The analysis of the "mystical character of commodities" is both the key to the critique of Christianity, "with its cult of abstract man", and the key to the critique of political economy, the fetishism of which "emerges clear as the noon-day, whenever it has to do with capital".

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen is associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics in the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Holland). Publications: Christianity in World History, 1964 Prophecy In a Technocratic Era, 1968 Critique of earth, 1974 Critique of heaven, 1972

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Critique of Earth
Verlag: JAMES CLARKE CO LTD
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New