Abstract: In the Grundrisse and Capital Marx’ method and epistemology are quite different from the positions he held on these matters in either the 1844 Manuscripts or the German Ideology. Despite these differences, what Marx does in the Grundrisse and Capital is to find a middle ground between his two earlier outlooks and indeed to work elements of them into a new synthesis. It is my contention then that neither the essential unity view, which accepts no fundamental shifts in Marx’ thought and often tends to see his epistemology as a social subjectivism, nor Althusser’s view, which argues a complete rupture and characterizes Marx’ epistemology as a radical anti-empiricism, is an accurate description of the development of Marx’ thought.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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