Critique of Earth: 2 (Library of Theological Translations) - Softcover

Leeuwen, Arend Theodoor Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0227170393 ISBN 13: 9780227170397

Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

The second series of van Leeuwen's Gifford Lectures examines the young Karl Marx's developing thought, of importance to those studying Marx and those involved in Marxist-Christian dialogue. The author examines the "transmutation" from the critique of heaven into the critique of earth. His thesis is that Marx's critique of religion is seen not in his opposition to "religion", but in his ideas on political economy. This thesis is undergirded with analysis of Marx's critique of political economy from 1842 to "Das Kapital". Marx's biography works itself out at three levels of critique: from religion via politics to political economy. "Das Kapital" sums up the whole of Marx's thought. The analysis of the "mystical character of commodities" is both the key to the critique of Christianity, "with its cult of abstract man", and the key to the critique of political economy, the fetishism of which "emerges clear as the noon-day, whenever it has to do with capital".

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About the Author

Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen is associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics in the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Holland). Publications: Christianity in World History, 1964 Prophecy In a Technocratic Era, 1968 Critique of earth, 1974 Critique of heaven, 1972

Edition details

• Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0227170393
• ISBN 13: 9780227170397
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300