INDEX
A
Action. See Practice; Human agency: Labor
Adler, Max, 118
Adorno, Theodor, 8 , 39 , 151 -152, 154 -155, 234 -235
Agency. See Human agency
of labor in Marx, 21 -22, 35 ;
Hegel equates with objectification, 23 , 54 , 186 ;
of individual in Marx, 25 -26, 110 ;
persistence of concept throughout Marx's work, 27 -28, 33 :
as tranquilization in Heidegger, 149 ;
inevitability of in Sartre, 176 -177, 181 , 182 , 186
Althusser, Louis, 2 , 123 , 231
Anthropology. See Empirical anthropology; Philosophical anthropology
Aristotle, 146
Authenticity:
Horkheimer and Adorno criticize cult of, 151 -152;
B
Beauvoir, Simone de, 165
Benjamin, Walter, 8
Bergson, Henri, 133 , 134 , 136 , 139
Bernstein, Eduard, 98 -99, 117 -118, 139
Bloch, Ernst, 54
Bolsheviks, 99 , 121 , 130 , 133 , 218 , 223
Bukharin, Nikolai, 217
C
Camus, Albert, 166
Capitalism:
and individual emancipation, 13 -14;
as foundation for individuation and communism in Marx, 30 , 36 -38, 39 , 90 ;
contradictions of according to Marx, 66 , 84 ;
Marx's theory as model of, 67 , 95 ;
class struggle and collapse of, 68 -72, 92 , 96 , 114 , 126 -127
Cartesian:
sense of subjectivity, 4 ;
Husserl as, 144 -145;
concept of free will, 158 ;
Civil society:
Marx on, 18 -21, 74 -78, 92 , 94 , 95 ;
interest as motivating force in, 73 -80, 85 -86;
Rousseau on, 93 -94.
Marx on abolition of, 30 ;
Marx on individuals vis-à-vis, 46 -47;
Marx on proletariat as one of, 69 -70, 75 -77, 83 , 85 , 92 , 94 :
Luxemburg on, 128 ;
possibility of true consciousness reserved for in Lukács, 131 ;
Merleau-Ponty's existential concept of, 213 -214, 227 -228.
See also Class struggle; Proletariat
Class struggle:
orthodoxy on inevitability of, 2 , 114 -117, 139 ;
Marx on need to cultivate, 64 , 68 -72, 83 -85, 103 ;
Engels on, 110 -112;
Luxemburg on, 126 -127;
Lukács on, 131 ;
Sartre on, 177 -178;
Merlcau-Ponty
on, 208 ;
doubts about Marx's hopes for, 233 -234
Cogito:
in Descartes, 4 ;
Marx goes beyond, 57 ;
in Sartre, 175 ;
Merleau-Ponty on embodiment of, 199 , 200 -203
Colletti, Lucio, 231
Communist League, 32
Communist party:
Marx's pedagogical concept of, 83 -85;
Lenin's vanguard, 84 -85, 121 -122;
Lukács also emphasizes pedagogical role of, 131 -132;
Sartre and French, 166 , 169 -170;
Merleau-Ponty and French, 215 , 218 -219
Communist society:
Marx on individuation and, 13 , 25 -26, 31 -32, 39 , 41 , 44 , 46 , 77 , 103 , 231 ;
Marx on preconditions for, 29 -30, 65 , 68 , 84 , 89 , 90 :
fate of Marx's hopes for, 41 , 234 ;
Engels on, 110 -111;
orthodoxy ignores individuation as aim of, 122 -123;
Lukács on, 132 -133;
Merleau-Ponty on, 206 , 216 -217. 226 , 228
Consciousness: and subjectivity, 4 -5;
and individuation, 5 ;
Marx on, 7 , 23 , 32 , 44 , 46 , 51 , 53 -58, 63 , 67 , 70 -72, 80 -81, 85 , 86 , 90 -91. 96 ;
Feuerbach on, 42 -43;
class consciousness, 69 , 71 , 72 , 90 , 96 , 107 , 111 -112, 120 -121, 129 -132, 153 , 168 , 179 , 190 , 200 , 206 ;
orthodoxy on, 99 , 100 , 114 -116, 118 , 139 ;
Engels on, 105 , 108 -109, 111 , 112 ;
Lenin on, 119 -120, 121 , 122 ;
Luxemburg on, 126 ;
Lukács on, 129 -132;
Husserl on, 145 ;
Sartre on, 159 -161, 163 , 165 , 171 , 172 , 174 -176, 182 :
Merleau-Ponty on, 198 -203, 206 -209, 212 , 227
Contradictions:
Marx on "logical," 65 -66, 90 ;
Marx on "immanent," 66 ;
logical ones mute without proletarian practice in Marx, 70 , 90 , 92 ;
Luxemburg on, 127 ;
Sartre on, 195
Cornu, Auguste, 54
Council Communism, 133
Croce, Benedetto, 133
D
Darwin, Charles, 107
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 14
Democracy: Marx on, 17 -19;
Lenin's disdain for, 122 ;
Luxemburg on need for, 126 ;
Sartre on, 166
Descartes, 14 , 92 , 146 , 158 , 200 , 201 . See also Cartesian
Determinism:
in orthodoxy, 2 , 97 , 99 , 114 -115;
in Marx, 53 , 57 , 64 , 67 -68, 89 , 91 , 97 , 213 ;
Hegel on, 60 ;
defined, 89 :
Smith on, 91 ;
Engels on, 108 ;
Lenin on, 121 ;
Luxemburg on, 127 ;
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on, 140 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 203 , 205 , 215 , 216 -217, 220 , 222 -223, 230 , 232 -233.
See also Necessity
Dialectic:
in orthodoxy, 99 , 114 -115, 123 -124;
in Engels, 105 -108, 110 , 111 -112;
in Lenin, 120 ;
in Lukács, 132 ;
in Horkheimer, 153 ;
in Sartre, 168 , 173 -174, 183 , 184 -185, 195 ;
in Merleau-Ponty, 206 , 221 , 222 -223, 227 , 228 -229
Diderot, Denis, 92
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 140
E
Education:
Marx's "materialist pedagogy," 7 , 80 -86, 91 -92;
Helvétius on, 81 ;
Hegel on, 81 ;
rationalist view of defined, 92 -93;
orthodoxy abandons Marx's program for enlightenment, 97 , 104 , 124 ;
Luxemburg on, 127 ;
Lukács on, 131 -132;
Gramsci on, 136 ;
Sartre and Merteau-Ponty on the need to cultivate rationality and a desire for freedom, 194 , 227 -229, 232 ;
doubts about Marx's hopes for enlightenment, 233 -234
Egoism:
and individualism, 5 ;
Marx and Engels on, 24 , 31 -32;
Stirner on, 31 ;
Empirical anthropology:
in Merleau-Ponty, 205 .
(Cf . Philosophical anthropology)
Engels, Friedrich, 7 , 8 , 26 , 27 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 53 , 66 , 77 , 82 , 99 , 103 -112, 114 , 115 , 123 , 126 , 184 ;
on materialism, 104 -108, 111 -112;
on dialectics of nature, 105 -110, 112 , 114 , 123 ;
on evolution, 106 , 107 , 110 ;
on subjectivity, 108 -110, 112 :
on labor, 109 -110;
on class struggle, 110 -112.
Works:
Anti-Dühring . 105 -106;
The Condition of the Working Class in England , 82 ;
Dialectics of Nature , 107 -108, 109 ;
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy , 108 -109
Enlightenment:
outlook on individuation, 6 ;
materialism, 43 ;
concept of interest in, 73 ;
Epistemology, 7 , 110 , 114 , 116 , 119 , 120 -122
Equality:
liberalism on, 14 ,
in "crude communism," 25 -26;
rationalism on, 93
Erfurt Program, 122
Essence:
in Marx's early works, 22 , 26 , 27 , 44 ;
Marx criticizes unhistorical use of concept, 28 , 36 ;
Marx deduces from existence, 29 , 36 -37, 57 ;
in Hegel, 86 ;
in Husserl, 144 -145
Essentialist concept of proletariat:
in Merleau-Ponty, 206 -207, 219 , 225
Evolution:
Lenin on, 120 ;
orthodoxy on, 124 ;
Gramsci on, 136
Existentialism:
outlook on individuation, 6 ;
as alternative to rationalist outlook on subjectivity, 7 -8, 99 , 139 -140, 143 , 147 -149, 155 , 159 -161, 174 -175, 188 -191, 193 , 197 -198, 199 -203, 226 -230;
implications for Marx's theory, 8 , 188 -191, 193 , 226 -230, 232 -233;
Stirner as primitive version of, 31 -32;
Horkheimer and Adorno criticize, 151 -152;
defined, 155 ;
Sartre on, 156 , 167 -168, 172 , 173 -175, 195 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 198 -205.
(Cf . Rationalism)
Existential Marxism, 1 , 3 , 4 , 8 , 99 ;
Merleau-Ponty's, 198 , 205 -230;
assessment of, 231 -233
F
Feuerbach, Ludwig:
on transformative method, 17 -18;
on species-being, 22 -23;
essence and nature in, 27 , 43 ;
on materialism, 42 -43;
on nominalism, 43 ;
Marx's critique of, 45 , 48 , 56 -58;
Engels on, 108 -109;
Plekhanov on, 114
Frankfurt School, 8 . See also Critical Theory
Freedom:
and individuation, 6 , 231 -236;
Sartre on, 8 , 156 -165, 166 , 168 , 170 , 173 , 179 , 181 , 182 -183, 186 -187, 189 , 196 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 8 , 203 -205;
liberal view of, 14 ;
Marx on, 20 , 26 , 30 , 36 -37, 70 , 74 , 84 , 86 , 90 , 91 , 94 , 95 , 111 ;
orthodoxy on, 115 -116, 118 , 124 ;
Nietzsche on, 142 -143;
Husseri on,
145 -146;
Heidegger on, 148 -149;
French Revolution, 17 , 94 , 180 , 187
Freud, Sigmund, 2 , 140 , 149 , 150 , 155
Fromm, Erich, 8
G
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 6
Gramsci, Antonio, 8 , 125 , 129 , 132 -138, 139
H
Habermas, Jürgen, 233
Halévy, Elie, 92
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 3 , 8 , 65 , 76 , 126 , 139 , 155 , 186 , 206 , 219 ;
on subjectivity, 4 ;
on individuation, 6 , 235 -236;
on the state, 15 -16;
criticisms by Marx of, 16 -20, 24 , 49 -50;
his logic, 48 -49liberal view
on labor, 54 , 58 -60, 61 , 63 ;
on education, 81 ;
on reason and necessity in history, 86 -87, 89 -90, 91 -92;
as an Enlightenment rationalist, 86 -92;
Engels on, 110 ;
Lenin on, 122 ;
and Lukács and Gramsci, 129 , 133 ;
Heidegger on, 146 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 221 , 224 , 227 .
Works:
The Logic , 87 ;
Phenomenology of Mind , 42 , 54 , 58 -59, 87 ;
Philosophy of Right , 17 , 43 -44; 73 , 74 , 76 , 81 ;
Science of Logic , 58 , 59 -60. 61 , 86
Heidegger, Martin, 140 , 146 -149, 152 , 155 , 157 , 159 , 161 -162, 176 , 197 , 205 , 209 , 233 .
Work: Being and Time , 146 -148, 161 -162, 205
Helvetius, Claude-Adrien, 73 , 81 , 92
Hirschman, Albert O., 73
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d', 43 , 81 , 92
Horkheimer, Max, 5 , 8 , 151 -155
Human agency, 4 , 13 , 49 , 66 , 71 , 85 , 86 , 89 , 90 , 120 , 140 ;
labor forfeits its intentional power as, 33 -35, 62 -63, 72 ;
as intentional in Marx, 54 , 61 ;
Marx on effective, 56 , 60 , 73 , 103 ;
labor as Marx's criterion of effective, 62 -63, 72 , 95 ;
Marx on proletariat's, 70 ;
Marx on interest as attribute of, 72 -86, 143 ;
orthodox distrust of, 104 , 116 ;
Engels on, 108 -109;
Weber on, 150 ;
Sartre on, 173 .
See also Labor; Practice; Will
Hungarian Revolt of 1956, 166 , 172
Husserl, Edmund, 140 , 144 -146, 147 , 151 , 152 , 155 , 176 , 200 -201, 205 , 206 , 216 , 225 .
Works:
Cartesian Meditations , 144 -145;
The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology , 145 -146, 147 , 206 ;
Logical Investigations , 144
Hyppolite, Jean, 59
I
Idealism:
Marx's critique of, 27 -29, 44 , 78 -79;
Marx's appreciation of, 56 -57, 114 ;
Lenin's diatribes against, 119 ;
concept of freedom in, 158 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 200 , 205 , 209 , 222 .
(Cf . Materialism)
Individual emancipation:
as Marx's aim, 19 , 20 , 26 , 33 , 36 , 38 , 40 -41, 99 -100, 103 , 231 ;
Marx on preconditions of, 19 , 22 , 29 , 37 , 53 , 65 , 68 , 143 ;
orthodoxy slights, 104 , 113 , 122 ;
Nietzsche's skepticism about, 143 ;
Heidegger's doubts, 149 ;
Adorno on, 152 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 206 .
See also Individuation; Individuality
Individualism:
defined and distinguished from individuation, 5 -6;
"methodological individualism," 5 , 45 ;
liberalism and, 14 ;
Smith on, 88 ;
Horkheimer on, 151 .
Individuality:
Marx on, 13 , 25 , 26 , 36 , 38 , 40 -41, 47 , 63 , 94 ;
Feuerbach on, 23 ;
interest as attribute of, 77 -80;
Smith on, 88 ;
Engels on, 108 ;
Gramsci on, 134 ;
Nietzsche on, 141 -142;
existential phenomenology and, 144 -149, 157 , 232 ;
Hegel on, 236 .
See also Individuation, Individual emancipation
Individuation:
as theme in Marxist thought, 3 -4, 6 -8;
defined and distinguished from individualism, 5 -6;
Marx on, 5 -6, 13 -41, 65 , 231 ;
relation to subjectivity, 6 ;
Lukács on, 132 ;
disturbing implications of modern philosophy for, 140 , 197 -198, 235 -236;
Nietzsche on, 141 -144;
Heidegger on, 147 -149;
See also Individual emancipation, Individuality
Institution:
Merleau-Ponty on, 186 , 207 , 209 -212, 228 -230, 232
Intentionality, 145
Interest:
rationalism and, 8 , 91 -92, 94 -95, 97 , 99 , 129 -130, 139 -140, 153 -154;
self-interest, 14 , 36 , 48 , 73 , 79 , 88 ;
Marx on, 41 , 64 -65, 72 -86, 89 , 91 , 93 -95, 97 , 231 ;
Ferguson on, 73 -74;
class interest, 73 , 78 -79, 84 -85, 89 , 91 , 96 , 126 , 129 , 208 ;
Rousseau on, 93 -94;
doubts about rational role, 94 -95, 143 , 148 -149, 228 , 234 ;
Engels on, 111 ;
orthodoxy on, 116 -117;
Luxemburg on, 126 ;
Lukács on, 129 -130;
Nietzsche on, 143 ;
Heidegger on, 148 -149;
Weber on, 150 ;
Horkheimer on, 153 -154;
Merleau-Ponty on, 213 -215, 228 , 232 .
International Working Men's Association, 85
Intersubjectivity:
and subjectivity in Marxist usage, 5 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 198 , 200 -203, 204 , 205 , 208 , 227 -228
K
Kant, Immanuel, 4 , 78 , 110 , 118 , 146 , 158 , 164 , 184 . See also Neo-Kantianism
Kautsky, Karl, 8 , 116 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 126
Kierkegaard. Soren, 139 , 140 , 151 , 155 , 174 , 191
Koestler, Arthur, 216
Korean War, 220
Kropotkin, Peter, 187
L
Labor:
rationalism and, 8 , 95 , 99 ;
Marx on individuation and, 19 , 20 -22, 23 , 25 , 26 , 30 , 32 -35, 36 , 38 , 39 , 40 ;
Marx's concept of, 50 , 53 -58, 60 -63, 89 -90, 109 -110;
as Marx's criterion of effective agency, 62 -63, 72 , 95 ;
doubts about value as paradigm of human agency, 95 , 148 -149, 150 , 228 , 232 ;
orthodoxy ignores teleology of, 97 , 116 , 124 ;
Engels on, 109 -110;
Gramsci on, 133 -134;
Heidegger on, 148 -149;
See also Practice; Human agency
Labor theory of value, 62 -63
Labriola, Antonio, 113 -116
Laws of nature:
as analogy for predictable social patterns, 2 , 64 , 65 -67, 73 , 230 ;
as precondition for effective labor in Hegel and Marx, 59 -61;
as verification of dialectic in Engels and orthodoxy, 105 , 106 , 107 , 114 -115, 123 , 128
Le Bon, Gustave, 140
Lefebvre, Henri, 2
Left-Hegelians: Marx's critique of, 27 -28, 44 , 56 , 81 , 82
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 92
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 7 , 8 , 84 , 113 , 118 -123, 125 , 127 , 129 , 130 , 132 , 199 .
Works:
Materialism and Empirio-Cirticism , 120 , 122 ;
Philosophical Notebooks , 122 ;
What Is to Be
Done? , 121 .
See also Leninism
Leninism:
Lukacs's, 132 ;
Les Temps modernes , 166 , 167 , 169 , 215
Liberalism, 13 -14, 31 , 40 , 94 ;
German, 14 -15;
Marx's critique of, 16 -20
Lukacs, Georg. 3 , 7 , 8 , 63 , 99 , 125 , 126 , 128 -132, 133 , 134 , 136 , 139 , 148 , 150 , 151 , 153 , 154 , 205 , 206 , 219 , 220 , 225 .
Works:
History and Class Consciousness , 7 , 130 -132, 148 , 153 , 205 , 220 ;
Tactics and Ethics , 129 ;
Theory of the Novel , 129
Luxemburg, Rosa, 8. 99 , 125 -128, 133 , 134 , 136
M
Machiavelli, Niccolo. 17 , 136 , 221
Maine, Henry Sumner, 78
Marcuse, Herbert, 2 , 8 , 149 , 151 , 153 , 154
Marx, Karl, 1 , 3 -4, 6 -8, 13 -100, 103 -104, 105 , 108 , 109 -110, 111 , 114 , 116 , 117 , 123 -124, 127 , 143 -144, 151 -152, 174 , 177 , 182 , 184 -185, 206 , 211 -212, 223 , 228 -230, 231 -236;
on individuation, 5 -6, 13 -41, 65 ;
on individual emancipation, 19 , 20 , 26 , 36 , 38 , 40 -41, 99 -100;
on alienation, 21 -22. 25 -26, 27 -28;
on subjectivity, 21 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 71 , 88 -96;
on surplus value, 34 -35, 66 ;
on interest, 41 , 64 -65, 72 -86, 89 , 91 , 93 -95, 97 ;
on "real individual, " 42 -52, 66 ;
on labor, 50 , 53 -58, 60 -63, 89 -90, 109 -110;
on determinism, 53 , 57 , 64 , 67 -68, 89 , 91 , 97 ;
on necessity, 64 , 65 , 66 , 70 , 72 , 86 , 88 -92, 96 , 97 ;
on class struggle, 64 , 68 -72, 83 -85;
on materialist pedagogy, 80 -86, 91 -92.
Works:
Capital , 13 , 33 , 35 -36, 38 , 39 , 48 , 49 , 51 , 58 , 59 , 60 -62, 64 -67, 80 , 94 , 97 , 107 , 130 , 131 , 186 ;
Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right, "17 -20, 43 -44;
Critique of Political Economy , 33 , 38 , 53 , 74 ;
"Critique of the Gotha Program, " 39 ;
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 , 21 -26, 33 , 44 , 54 -56, 61 , 74 , 76 , 212 ;
Grundrisse , 33 -38, 48 -52. 60 -62, 65 -66, 71 ;
"On the Jewish Question", 20 ;
The Poverty of Philosophy . 48 , 83 ;
Theories of Surplus Value , 33 ;
"Theses on Feuerbach, " 56 -58, 114 , 116 ;
"Toward the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction," 20 , 76 , 95 , 206 ;
"Wage Labor and Capital, " 32 , 84
Marx and Engels:
relationship of, 103 -104, 105 , 108 , 109 -110, 111 -112.
Works:
The German Ideology-27 -32, 36 , 45 -46, 51 -52, 53 , 55 , 77 , 78 -79, 83 ;
The Holy Family , 26 -27, 44 , 49 , 76 , 81 ;
Manifesto of the Communist Party , 32 , 62 , 69 , 83 , 86
Materialism, 7 , 98 -99, 125 ;
Marx on, 23 , 27 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 96 , 116 ;
defined, 29 ;
Marx's materialism defined, 29 , 56 -58;
Enlightenment materialism defined, 43 ;
Engels on, 104 -108, 111 -112;
Plekhanov on. 113 -115, 123 -124;
Lenin on, 119 ;
Gramsci on, 133 ;
Adorno on, 154 -155;
Merleau-Ponty on, 205 , 220 , 222 , 224 .
(Cf Idealism)
Materialist pedagogy. See Education
Mead, George Herbert, 45
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1 , 3 , 6 , 8 , 99 , 149 , 155 , 156 , 170 , 186 , 189 , 197 -230, 231 , 232 , 233 , 234 ;
on institution, 186 , 207 , 209 -212, 228 -230, 232 ;
on perception, 198 -203, 205 , 206 , 207 -208, 209 ;
on behaviorism and empiricism, 199 ;
on subjectivity, 200 -203, 206 , 218 , 222 , 224 , 227 , 228 ,
230 ;
on situation, 201 , 204 , 212 , 213 -214, 218 , 232 ;
on solipsism, 202 ;
on freedom, 203 -205;
on history, 207 -208, 215 -219, 221 , 223 , 224 , 225 , 226 , 228 , 229 ;
on necessity, 210 , 220 , 225 , 228 ;
on terrorism, 215 -219.
Works:
Adventures of the Dialectic , 207 , 219 -222;
Humanism and Terror , 207 , 213 , 215 -219, 220 , 226 -227;
Phenomenology of Perception , 199 -205, 206 , 212 -215, 216 , 223 , 227 ;
The Structure of Behavior , 198 -199
Mill, John Stuart, 75
Montesquieu, Charles de Sccondat, Baron de, 17 , 75
Morgan, Lewis H., 107
Moscow Trials: Merleau-Ponty on, 216 -219, 226
Mussolini, Benito, 133
N
Nature:
as object of labor in Hegel and Marx, 22 , 40 , 59 -61, 63 , 96 , 120 ;
Marx on human, 23 -28, 40 , 108 ;
Engels on dialectics of, 105 -110, 112 , 114 , 123 ;
Lenin on, 122 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 198 -200, 203 .
See also Laws of nature
Naturalism, 106 , 199 . See also Nature
Necessity:
Marx on resolving contradiction between freedom and, 26 ;
Marx on natural, 40 , 60 , 95 ;
Hegel on, 59 , 60 , 81 , 86 -87, 90 ;
Marx on historical, 64 , 65 , 66 , 70 , 72 , 86 , 88 -92, 96 , 97 , 231 ;
predictability and, 72 , 91 , 135 -136;
defined, 89 -90;
doubts about historical, 99 , 134 -136, 210 , 229 -230, 232 ;
orthodoxy on, 115 -117, 123 -124, 139 ;
Lenin on, 120 ;
Lukacs on, 133 ;
Gramsci on, 134 -136;
Merleau Ponty on, 210 , 220 , 225 , 228 .
See also Determinism
Needs:
Marx on, 24 , 26 , 36 , 37 -38, 40 , 79 , 95 ;
interest and, 74 , 79 , 81 , 95 ;
Marcuse on, 154 ;
Adorno on,. 55 ;
in revisionism, 117 -118;
in Sartre, 184 -185
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 140 -144, 147 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 157 , 197 , 233
Nominalism:
defined, 43 ;
Feuerbach on, 43 ;
Marx adapts Feuerbach's, 43 -45;
Marx's social nominalism. 44 -46, 51 -52;
Marx rejects conceptual nominalism, 49 ;
Sartre's "dialectical nominalism, " 175 , 193 .
See also Social nominalism
O
Objectification, 5 ;
and labor in Marx, 22 -26, 53 , 109 -110;
entails alienation in Hegel and Sartre, 23 , 54 , 186 ;
and alienation in Marx, 33 -35;
orthodoxy on, 97 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 227 -228.
See also Objectivity; Labor
Objectivism:
Husserl on, 145 -146;
Merleau-Ponty on, 222 -223, 231
Objectivity: defined, 4 -5;
Marx on, 23 , 34 , 71 , 86 , 95 , 228 ;
Lenin on, 120 ;
Luxemburg on, 126 ;
Gramsci on, 135 ;
Husserl on, 144 -145;
Sartre on, 172 , 174 , 183 , 190 , 194 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 200 , 201 , 202 , 209 , 219 , 224 , 228 .
(Cf . Subjectivity)
Orthodox Marxism:
theoretical orientation, 2 , 97 -98, 103 -104, 113 -124;
Engels's relation to, 104 , 107 , 112 , 113 -114;
Merleau-Ponty on, 223 -224
P
Paci, Enzo, 233
Pannekoek, Anton, 133
Particularity:
and subjectivity, 4 , 235 -236;
Marx on, 19 , 24 -26, 41 , 43 , 77 ;
and interest, 74 -77, 81 , 86 ;
Sartre on, 194 .
See also Real individual. (Cf . Universality)
Passions: and interest, 73 , 80 , 85 , 91 ;
Engels on, 105 ;
Phenomenology:
Heidegger on, 146 -149;
in Sartre, 156 , 159 , 175 -179, 193 ;
of society in Simmel and Schutz, 187 ;
in Merleau-Ponty, 198 , 199 -205, 206 -207, 212 , 215 , 223 , 232 , 233
Philosophical anthropology:
Marx abandons, 13 , 27 -28, 65 , 185 ;
in the young Marx, 20 , 22 -24;
in Marcuse, 156 ;
(Cf . Empirical anthropology)
Plekhanov, George V., 8 , 113 -116, 119 , 123 , 126 , 199
Political economy: Marx on, 21 -22, 48 -50, 65 -68, 74 , 77 ;
Sartre on, 186
Positivism:
Marx's relation to, 64 -65, 86 , 96 -97;
omits subjectivity unlike rationalism, 96 -97, 107 ;
in orthodox Marxism, 99 , 125 , 129 , 139 , 149 ;
evolutionary positivism defined, 107 ;
(Cf . Rationalism)
Practice:
Marx on, 54 -58, 99 -100, 109 -110;
Hegel on, 58 -60;
orthodoxy on, 98 , 113 -116, 124 , 139 ;
Engels on, 109 -110;
Luxemburg on, 126 ;
Lukács on, 132 ;
Sartre on praxis, 168 , 169 -171, 175 , 178 , 181 -185, 190 -191, 194 -195;
Merleau-Ponty on action, 199 , 200 , 202 , 204 , 206 -208, 212 , 218 , 219 , 222 -223, 224 -226, 228 -229.
See also Labor
Predictability. See Necessity
Production, mode of:
orthodox view of, 2 ;
as basis of life in Marx, 27 -30, 71 , 79 ;
Marx on capitalist, 34 -35, 69 -70, 79 ;
Marx on individuation and, 37 , 40 , 46 , 50 , 52 ;
Engels on, 111 ;
Lukács on reification in capitalist, 130 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 208 , 211 , 223 -224
Proletariat:
orthodox view of, 2 , 114 , 116 , 124 ;
Marx first formulates theory of, 17 , 20 , 75 -76;
and individuation in Marx, 22 ;
Marx on class interest of, 64 -65, 72 -73, 75 -77, 79 -80, 81 -86;
as basis of Marx's science, 68 , 103 ;
Marx on rise of, 69 -71;
Engels on, 82 , 105 , 111 -112;
as effective rational agency within human prehistory, 89 -96, 124 , 231 ;
difficulties with Marx's view of, 98 , 124 , 219 -221, 224 , 233 -234;
Lenin on, 121 -122;
Luxemburg on, 125 -128;
Lukacs on, 129 -133, 136 , 150 , 153 ;
Gramsci on, 136 ;
Horkheimer on, 153 ;
Sartre on, 165 , 170 -172, 190 -191;
Merleau-Ponty on, 206 -207, 212 -215, 219 -221.
See also Essentialist concept of proletariat
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 48
R
Rassemblement Democratique Revolutionnaire, 166
Rationalism:
Marx's rationalist optimism, 7 -8, 93 -94;
existentialism as alternative to, 8 , 99 , 155 , 188 -191, 232 -233;
in Marx's theory, 65 , 86 , 92 -97;
Hegel and Smith as proponents of, 86 -88;
defined, 92 -93;
underwritten by labor and interest in Marx's view of subjectivity, 94 -95;
in Bernstein's theory, 98 -99;
orthodoxy abandons, 99 , 107 ;
Lukács's rationalist pessimism, 130 -132;
Gramsci on, 135 -136;
modern philosophical challenges to, 139 -150;
in Horkheimer, 153 -154, 155 ;
Sartre's critique of, 157 , 159 -161, 188 -191, 193 -194;
Merleau-Ponty's critique of, 199 , 204 -205, 224 -225.
See also Reason; Rationality. (Cf . Positivism; Existentialism)
Rationality:
89;
and interest in Marx, 79 , 80 , 94 -95;
in Hegel and Smith, 87 -88;
and labor in Marx, 95 ;
Nietzsche on, 143 ;
Husserl on, 145 -146;
Freud and Weber on, 149 -150;
Adorno on, 152 ;
approach of existentialism to, 155 ;
in Sartre, 156 -157, 181 , 189 -191, 232 ;
in Merleau-Ponty, 200 , 206 , 224 , 228 , 232 .
See also Reason; Rationalism
Real individual:
in Marx's methodology, 42 -52, 66 , 103 , 115 ;
Lukács rejects, 131 -132;
in Sartre, 174 -175;
in Merleau-Ponty, 228 -229.
See also Particularity
Reason:
its primacy doubted, 8 , 232 -233;
in history in Marx, 16 , 17 , 91 -92, 94 , 95 -96, 99 -100;
and interest, 74 , 80 , 91 -92;
Engelson, 116 ;
Luxemburg on, 128 ;
Nietzsche on, 140 ;
Heidegger on, 148 ;
in Sartre, 156 , 181 , 184 -185, 189 -191, 193 ;
in Merleau-Ponty, 200 , 208 , 215 , 224 .
See also Rationalism; Rationality
Reich, Wilhelm, 8
Reification:
Marx criticizes Hegel for, 18 ;
Marx criticizes left-Hegelians for, 28 -29;
Marx on problem of in capitalist society, 46 , 47 , 51 -52, 97 ;
Sartre on, 182 -183
Revisionism, 116 -118
Revolution:
Marx on nature of, 20 -21, 70 , 84 , 97 , 231 ;
Marx on capitalism as basis of communist, 30 , 90 , 92 , 96 ;
lack of authentic communist revolution to date, 41 , 233 -234;
relation of rationalist hopes to prospects for, 99 , 125 , 128 -130;
orthodoxy on, 116 ;
Lenin on, 120 ;
Luxemburg on, 127 ;
imminence of for young Lukacs, 129 -130;
Marcuse on, 154 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 214 , 220 -221, 223 .
Ricardo, David, 21
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 17 , 75 , 93 , 132 , 181
Ruge, Arnold, 82
Russian Revolution, 99 , 113 , 120 , 125 , 126 , 128 , 133 , 187
S
Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de, 40
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1 , 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 99 , 155 , 156 -196, 197 , 198 , 201 , 202 , 203 , 204 , 205 , 208 , 209 , 211 , 215 , 231 , 232 , 233 ;
on necessity, 99 , 172 , 182 -183;
on freedom, 156 -165, 186 -187;
on bad faith, 160 -161, 162 , 173 , 188 , 197 ;
on authenticity, 161 -165, 188 -189;
on situation, 163 -165, 171 , 175 , 232 ;
on praxis, 168 , 169 -171, 175 , 178 , 181 -185, 190 -191, 194 -195;
on subjectivity, 171 -172, 174 , 175 , 176 , 183 , 187 , 190 -191, 194 -195;
on inertia, 172 , 182 -183, 189 -194;
on Other, 176 -179;
on conflict as complement of freedom, 177 -181;
on We-subject, 178 -180;
on series, 179 , 181 , 182 -183, 187 ;
on existential psychoanalysis, 192 -196.
Works:
Being and Nothingness , 156 , 158 -165, 168 -169, 170 , 172 , 175 -177, 178 -179, 181 , 183 , 186 , 188 , 191 , 192 , 201 , 203 , 204 ;
The Communists and Peace , 169 -173, 177 , 190 , 195 , 220 ;
Critique of Dialectical Reason , 165 , 167 , 168 , 173 , 175 -187, 188 , 191 , 192 , 193 , 195 ;
The Idiot of the Family , 192 -193;
"Materialism and Revolution," 167 -169;
Psychology of Imagination , 158 ;
Saint Genet , 192 ;
Search for a Method , 173 -175, 188 , 191 , 193 , 194 , 195
Scheler. Max, 146
Science:
Marx on, 23 , 25 , 35 , 84 , 96 , 108 ;
Marx's theory as, 64 -68, 89 , 93 , 99 , 117 , 231 ;
Enlightenment rationalism and, 92 ;
Engels on, 105 -106, 108 , 111 -112;
orthodoxy interprets Marxism as purely objective, 115 , 117 ;
Husserl on subjectivity and grounds of, 145 -146;
doubts about possibility of purely objective, 229 -230, 232
Second International, 113 , 117 , 123 , 125 , 127
Silesian Weavers Revolt of 1844, 82
Simmel, Georg, 6 , 129 , 140 , 184 , 187
Situation:
Sartre on, 163 -165, 171 , 175 , 232 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 201 , 204 , 212 , 213 -214, 218 , 232
Smith, Adam:
on wealth as result of free play of self-interest, 48 , 85 , 88 , 91 ;
on interests of social orders, 74 , 75 , 76 , 80 ;
as Enlightenment rationalist, 86 , 87 -91, 92 .
Work: Wealth of Nations , 21 , 76 , 88
Social being, 4 ;
as historical result in mature Marx, 29 , 39 ;
Lukács on, 131 ;
Sartre on, 177 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 209 -212
Social democracy, 97 , 121 , 126 , 127
Social individual, 13 , 24 , 25 , 36 , 38 -41, 144 ;
as telos of history in Marx's later work, 13 , 36 , 38 -41;
as assumption of Marx's philosophical anthropology, 24 -25, 36 ;
doubts about historical emergence of, 41 , 144 , 235 -236
Social nominalism:
defined, 44 ;
See also Nominalism. (Cf . Social realism)
Social realism:
in Comte, 96 .
(Cf . Social nominalism)
Social relations:
vis-à-vis individuals in Marx, 36 , 37 , 44 , 63 , 71 , 79 ;
as object of Marx's theory, 46 -52;
importance for proletariat of understanding in Marx, 68 , 80 , 81 -82, 82 -83, 92 ;
Lukács on, 131 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 222 , 229 -230, 232
Sorel, Georges, 133 , 134 , 139
Species being:
in Marx, 23 , 27 -28, 29 , 44 , 54 -55
Spinoza, Baruch, 92
Stalin, Joseph, 123 , 151 , 197 , 226
Subjectivity:
as theme in Marxist thought, 2 -4, 6 -8, 97 -100, 139 , 235 -236;
defined, 4 -5;
relation to individuation, 6 ;
Marx on, 21 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 71 ;
and labor in Marx, 21 , 34 , 56 , 61 ;
and necessity in Marx, 64 -65, 70 , 72 , 86 , 89 -90, 95 -97;
and interest in Marx, 77 -80;
Marx's rationalist understanding of, 88 -96;
emptied of meaning by orthodoxy, 99 , 100 , 115 , 123 -124;
Sartre and Merleau-Ponty raises doubts about Marx's understanding of, 99 , 228 , 230 , 232 -233;
revisionism assigns moral role to, 117 -118;
Adler on, 118 ;
Lenin on, 120 ;
Luxemburg on, 126 -128;
Lukács on reification of, 130 -132, 150 ;
Gramsci questions rationalist account of, 133 , 134 -136;
Nietzsche attacks rationalist account of, 141 ;
Husserl on, 144 -146;
modern challenges to rationalist account of, 149 -150;
Adorno on, 152 ;
limits in approach of critical theory to, 155 ;
relation of existentialism to, 155 ;
in Sartre, 171 -172, 174 , 175 , 176 , 183 , 187 , 190 -191, 194 -195;
in Merleau-Ponty, 200 -203, 206 , 218 , 222 , 224 , 227 , 228 , 230 .
(Cf . Objectivity)
T
Teleology:
and labor in Marx, 54 , 57 , 61 , 110 ;
Hegel on, 59 -60;
rational social action in Marx gives history coherence of, 96 ;
Engels on, 107 ;
orthodoxy ignores, 116 -118, 124 ;
Husserl on, 145 -146;
Sartre on, 167 -169;
See also Labor; Transcendence
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 5 , 75 , 187
Totality:
methodological importance of in Marx, 47 , 51 ;
Sartre on, 195
Transcendence:
and labor in Marx, 57 ;
transcending standpoint in Marx, 58 ;
Sartre on freedom and, 157 , 160 :
Sartre on revolution and, 165 -168;
Sartre on praxis and, 175 ;
always situated according to Merleau-Ponty, 189 , 203 -205, 209 , 220 .
See also Teleology
U
Universality:
as attribute of particularity, 4 , 19 , 24 , 77 ;
relation to subjectivity and individuality, 5 ;
Marx on, 17 , 19 , 20 , 24 , 92 ;
and particular interests, 75 , 77 , 81 , 85 -86;
of proletariat's interest according to Marx, 76 , 85 -86, 92 ;
Hegel on, 81 ;
in Sartre, 194 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 217 .
(Cf . Particularity)
V
Voluntarism:
in revisionism, 117 ;
in Lenin, 120 -121;
Gramasci defends, 135 ;
in Sartre, 168 -170.
See also Will
W
Weber, Max, 129 , 131 , 140 , 141 , 149 -150, 151 , 221
Will:
Stirner on, 31 ;
Marx on, 51 , 61 , 67 , 71 -72;
Marx criticizes idea of "pure" will, 78 , 79 ;
Engels on, 109 ;
Labriola on, 115 ;
Gramsci on, 135 ;
Nietzsche on, 144 ;
critical theory on, 152 , 154 ;
Sartre on freedom of, 158 -159, 169 -170, 181 ;
Merleau-Ponty on, 201
World War I, 127