A Failed Parricide : Hegel and the Young Marx

Author: Thomas, Peter D., Popham, Nicola Iannelli, Finelli, Roberto

Society & social sciences

Published on 18 January 2018 by Haymarket Books in the United States as part of 'the Historical Materialism' series.

Many hold that the transition from Hegel's materialism to Marx's materialism signifies a progressive development from an abstract-idealist theory-of-becoming, to a theory of the concrete actions of humans within history. A Failed Parricide offers an innovative reading of this transition, arguing that Marx remained structurally subaltern to Hegel's conception of the subject that becomes itself in relation to alterity