2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0618-4899-01 | Marx's Concept of Man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course Objectives: Introducing Marx' humanistic thought, its origins and problems.
Course Topics: The Hegelian background of Marx' philosophy; Marxism as anthropological philosophy and a theory of emancipation; Man as producer and "species-being", the concept of labour; The historical materialism and its problems; The alienated labour, fetishism of commodity and the reification of Man; Concepts of "justice" and their negations; The abolition of the state; The "Kingdom of Necessity" and the "Kingdom of Freedom".
Method of Teaching: Introductory lectures, guided reading, classroom discussion and personal tutoring for writing seminar papers.
Main Texts: Marx' Early Writings.
A Bibliography of primary and secondary literature will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Student Assignment: A seminar or referat paper.