[Contribution to the] Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie) is a manuscript

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 written by German

Germany

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 political philosopher

Political philosophy

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 Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

 in 1843.

Unpublished during his lifetime, it is a manuscript in which Marx comments on fellow philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

's 1820 book

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 Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right was published in 1820, though the book's original title page dates it to 1821...

paragraph by paragraph. One of Marx's major criticisms of Hegel in the document

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 is the fact that many of his dialectic

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al arguments begin in abstraction

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.

This work contains the formulations of Marx's particular alienation theory

Marx's theory of alienation

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, which was informed by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach...

's work. Narrative of the work develops around analysis of the relations between civil society and political society.

External links

• Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie, German text
• Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right