On the criticism of Hegel's philosophy of law

Critique of Hegel's legal philosophy a font of is Karl Marx from the years 1843 and 1844. It consists of a March wrote to August 1843 critique of Hegelian state law that was in 1927 published the first time, and the end of 1843 incurred to January 1844 Introduction which appeared in 1844. The first text is also known as the Kreuznach manuscript .

Critique of the Hegelian constitutional law

There is a manuscript of 39 sheets of this writing. Marx had paged the pages with Roman numerals. The first manuscript sheet has not survived. The work was not published during Marx's lifetime.

In it, he deals in detail with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's work Basics of the Philosophy of Law , published in 1821 . In particular, Marx points to the abstraction of Hegel's concept of the state.

introduction

Beginning of the introduction ( Franco-German Yearbooks , page 71)

This famous text appeared in the Franco-German Yearbooks in 1844 . In this criticism of the “German conditions”, Marx starts out from religion , which he describes as the “ opium of the people ” (with which he sharpened a formulation by Heinrich Heine ). But in the sense of emancipation , beyond a “criticism of heaven”, a “criticism of politics” is necessary for Marx, which cannot be made through philosophy alone, but only through the action of the proletariat class .

At the end of his introduction, Marx counters Hegel's image of philosophy as the “ owl of Minerva ”, which “only begins its flight with the onset of twilight”, with the “blaring of the Gallic rooster ” through which “when all internal conditions are met are ", the" German resurrection day "is proclaimed.

See also

• Marxist philosophy

expenditure

• Karl Marx: Critique of the Hegelian constitutional law
  • MEW Vol. 1, p. 203
  • Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right , English translation on marxists.org by Annette Jolin and Joseph O'Malley; published 1970 by Joseph O'Malley, Cambridge University Press.

• introduction
  • MEW Vol. 1, p. 378
  • Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ( English translation on marxists.org )

literature

• Dieter Wolf: The concept of contradiction in the "Critique of Hegelian State Law" (PDF; 269 kB). Selection from: The dialectical contradiction in capital. Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-889-1
• Christoph Drösser: Right? Borrowed drug , in: Die Zeit No. 42, 2004. - On the formulation of the people's opium

Footnotes

1. ↑ Urs Lindner: Marx and philosophy. Scientific realism, ethical perfectionism and critical social theory , Stuttgart 2013, p. 78.
2. ↑ Christoph Drösser ( Right? ): Borrowed drug . In: The time . No. 42, October 7, 2004
3. ↑ GWF Hegel: Basics of the Philosophy of Law. Edited and introduced by Helmut Reichelt. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1972, ISBN 3-548-02929-9 , p. 14
4. ↑ K. Marx: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Introduction. MEW Vol. 1, p. 391

Web links

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