MARX IN PARIS: MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTEBOOKS OF 1844

摘要

The [Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844] is one of Marx's best-known works all around the world. Yet, although the manuscripts are so often discussed and are so important for overall interpretations of their author's thought, little attentioti has been paid to the philological problems that they present. This fact, together with the theoretical and political disputes that began with publication of the first edition in 1932, has helped to fuel a misinterpretation of what many commentators regard as the most significant text of Marx's youth.After a brief description of the intellectual climate at the time of Marx's stay in the French capital and of the economic studies that he began there, this essay examines the close connection between the [Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844] and the parallel notebooks of excerpts that Marx compiled from the writings of political economists, as well as the greater philosophical and political maturity that he achieved in this major period of his development.