Engels conceived history as encompassing all social spheres, not just nature
Evidence
Engels once wrote that “history is … simply meant to comprise all the spheres—political, juridical, philosophical, theological—belonging to society and not only to nature.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1608
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: States Engels’s broad sense of ‘history’ as the totality of social spheres.
Related
- Marx grounded all social inquiry in material conditions of production and political economy (similarity 0.82)
- Engels rejected the view that the economic factor is the sole determinant of history. (similarity 0.80)
- Historical materialism fails to capture Black historical being as more than opposition to capital (similarity 0.79)
- Historical materialism fails to capture the full historical being of Black peoples. (similarity 0.79)
- Engels’s defenses of Marxism were trapped by the very concepts they defended (similarity 0.79)
- Engels proposed qualifying ‘history’ as ‘written’ before Marx’s death (similarity 0.78)