Between the Heideggerian ontology and the Marxian one. H. Marcuse and his interpretation of Marx's Parisian manuscripts.

Abstract

This article deals with the reception of Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) in H. Marcuse’s work. In his essays «New Sources on the Foundation of Historical Materialism» (1932) and «On the Philosophical Foundation of the Concept of Labor in Economics» (1933), Marcuse distances himself from his previous attempt to find an ontological basis for Historical Materialism using only Heidegger’s Existential Phenomenology. Since the first publication of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts in 1932, the Berliner author will seek to base Historical Materialism ontologically drawing on Marx’s early work.

Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, n° 8, july-december 2016: 123-144