The Concept of Nature in Marx

Short description: 1962 book by Alfred Schmidt

The Concept of Nature in Marx

Cover of the first edition

Author| Alfred Schmidt
Original title| Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx
Country| Germany
Language| German
Subject| Karl Marx
Published|

* 1962 (in German)
* 1971 (in English)

Media type| Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN| 978-1781681473
Part of a series on the

Frankfurt School

Major works

* Reason and Revolution
* "The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
* Eclipse of Reason
* Escape from Freedom
* Minima Moralia
* Eros and Civilization
* One-Dimensional Man
* Negative Dialectics
* The Structural Transformation
of the Public Sphere
* The Theory of Communicative Action
* Dialectic of Enlightenment

Notable theorists

* Marcuse
* Adorno
* Horkheimer
* Benjamin
* Fromm
* Pollock
* Löwenthal
* Habermas
* Schmidt
* Honneth
* Kracauer
* Kirchheimer

List

* Advanced capitalism
* Antipositivism
* Communicative rationality
* Critical theory
* Culture industry
* Dialectic
* Legitimation crisis
* Non-identity
* Popular culture
* Praxis
* Privatism
* Psychoanalysis

Related topics

* Freudo-Marxism
* Marxist humanism
* Social alienation

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The Concept of Nature in Marx (German: Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx) is a 1962 book by the philosopher Alfred Schmidt. First published in English in 1971, it is a classic account of Karl Marx's ideas about nature.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Summary
* 2 Reception
* 3 References
* 3.1 Bibliography

## Summary

The critic Terry Eagleton summarizes Schmidt as arguing that, according to Marx, "Human beings are part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature."[2]

## Reception

The Concept of Nature in Marx has been seen as a classic work.[1] The philosopher Herbert Marcuse offers a discussion of the role of nature in Marxist philosophy informed by Schmidt's work in his Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972).[3] The political scientist David McLellan describes The Concept of Nature in Marx as, "an important and well-documented consideration of the importance of Marx's materialism."[4]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eagleton 2012. p. 248.
2. ↑ Eagleton 2012. p. 233.
3. ↑ Marcuse 1972. p. 62.
4. ↑ McLellan 1995. p. 446.

### Bibliography

Books

* Eagleton, Terry (2012). Why Marx Was Right. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18153-1.
* Marcuse, Herbert (1972). Counterrevolution and Revolt. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1533-9.
* McLellan, David (1995). Karl Marx: A Biography. London: Papermac. ISBN 978-0-333-63947-4.

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