ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.09.033
On Marx's Subversion of Subjectivity: Refuting Heidegger's Critique of Marx
Yunling Yang
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, 200058.
*Corresponding author: Yunling Yang
Published: October 19,2022
Abstract
The key to the question of whether Marx's critique of traditional metaphysics is a branch of metaphysics or whether it really touches the foundations of metaphysics is whether Marx's critique dismantles the foothold of subjectivity, which is the basic establishment of modern metaphysics. Heidegger argues that Marx merely inverted traditional metaphysics, but the question of whether Marx's critique of metaphysics is a branch of metaphysics hinges on whether Marx's critique dismantles the grounding of subjectivity, which is the basic establishment of modern metaphysics. Marx captures the problem of subjectivity in modern metaphysics. On the one hand, the externalization of self-consciousness releases only thingness, and the nature itself released by the spiritualistic self-consciousness is non-existent because it is non-objective; on the other hand, the pure self as immanence desires content only formally, and the pure self itself is an abstraction from the reality of nature. Marx's object activity penetrates the detachment of the inner nature, setting the external thing not as the subject but as the subjectivity of the essential force of the object.
Keywords
Marx, Heidegger, subjectivity, metaphysics
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How to cite this paper
On Marx's Subversion of Subjectivity: Refuting Heidegger's Critique of Marx
How to cite this paper: Yunling Yang. (2022) On Marx's Subversion of Subjectivity: Refuting Heidegger's Critique of Marx. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 6(3), 489-491.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.09.033