Marx’s early manuscripts entered English New Left debate through Paris
Evidence
By 1958, in effect I had become the full-time editor of the Universities and Left Review. Charles Taylor had already gone to Paris to study with Merleau-Ponty. Charles was very important to me, personally. I remember the first discussions of Marx’s 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, which he brought back from Paris, and the discussions about alienation, humanism, and class. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 793
Categorization
- XREF: The 1844 Manuscripts debates on alienation and humanism feed directly into the humanism/anti-humanism split that frames subsequent critical theory — connects to Althusser and the theory toolkit. — connects to: The 1932 publication of Marx’s Paris Manuscripts pivoted Marcuse from Heidegger to Marx — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 419