Karl Marx and the Body: Towards an Eco-Marxist Philosophical Anthropology

Abstract

This article argues that the body occupies a central place in Marx’s thought, and that a critical reconstruction of his dialectical understanding of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature and his concepts of corporeal organisation, labour, tools and metabolism provides a foundation for an eco-Marxist theory of human nature and the corporeal roots of human historicity and freedom.

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corporeality historicity Marx Marxism metabolism the body tools

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