The Concept of Nature in Marx

The Concept of Nature in Marx

The 1962 German edition
Author	Alfred Schmidt
Original title	Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Marx
Country	Germany
Language	German
Genre	Philosophy
Published	1962
Media type	Print

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 Dialectic of Enlightenment Minima Moralia Eros and Civilization One-Dimensional Man Negative Dialectics The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere The Theory of Communicative Action
Notable theorists
Herbert Marcuse · Theodor Adorno Max Horkheimer · Walter Benjamin Erich Fromm · Friedrich Pollock Leo Löwenthal · Jürgen Habermas Alfred Schmidt · Axel Honneth Siegfried Kracauer
Important concepts
Critical theory · Dialectic · Praxis Psychoanalysis · Antipositivism Popular culture · Culture industry Advanced capitalism Privatism · Non-identity Communicative rationality Legitimation crisis

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

Summary

Literary 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]

Scholarly reception

The Concept of Nature in Marx has been seen as a classic work.^[1] Political scientist David McLellan described it as, "an important and well-documented consideration of the importance of Marx's materialism."^[3]

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