Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's legal philosophy is a font of Karl Marx from the years 1843 and 1844. Consists of one to August 1843, written by March critique of the Hegelian state law, which was founded in 1927 first published, and the end of 1843 to January 1844 resulting Introduction, which appeared in 1844. The former text is also known as Kreuznacher manuscript.

Critique of Hegel's state law

From this document, there is a manuscript of 39 arches. Marx had the pages paginated with Roman numerals. The first manuscript sheet has not been handed down. The work was not published in Marx's lifetime.

He sits down in detail by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1821 published work Elements of the Philosophy of Right apart. In particular, Marx points to the abstractness of Hegel's concept of the state.

Introduction

This famous text published in 1844 in the German - French Yearbooks. Marx goes on in this critique of the " German states" of the religion from which he describes as "the opium of the people" (by which he came to a head a formulation of Heinrich Heine ). But in the sense of emancipation is a " critique of Heaven" also for Marx a " critique of politics " is necessary, which could not be carried solely by the philosophy, but only by the actions of the proletarian class.

The image of Hegel's philosophy as the " owl of Minerva ", which begins " only with the falling of the dusk flight," Marx is at the end of his introduction, the " crowing of the Gallic cock " counter through which, " when all internal satisfies conditions are, "the" be proclaimed German resurrection ".