Marxism and the Human Individual

by Adam Schaff

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Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Adam Schaff (10 March 1913, Lwów – 12 November 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.

Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lwów into a lawyer's family. Schaff studied economics at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques et Economiques in Paris, and philosophy in Poland, specializing in epistemology. In 1945 he received a philosophy degree at Moscow University, and in 1948 he returned to Warsaw University. He was considered the official ideologue of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Club of Rome.

Reviews

[Louis Cheng · Rating 4 out of 5]

Schaff casts Marx as fundamentally concerned with the life of actual, living human individuals. It is in this way that perhaps Marx and Socrates are not so different - both ask the questions of "what is a good life?" and "how to achieve a good life?". In Marx's case, however, it is recognised that the human individual is fundamentally socially constituted and thus cannot be fully liberated from, for instance, the problem of alienation merely through the likes of "self enlightenment" or beliefs in a supernatural "spirit"; instead, it must occur through social change.

[Aleksandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

kupiłam książkę przypadkowo na allegro, bo głupio było mi zamawiać jeden podręcznik za osiem złotych i drugie tyle za przesyłkę, i boy oh boy, było naprawdę warto.

tylko znowu szkoda, że kapitalizm

[martyna · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5