Other Works

• Marx on Religion

  - Marx, Karl. Marx on Religion. John Raines, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

• Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)

  - Marx, Karl. Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Marxists.org.
  “For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech… More

Commentary

• Meaning in History by Karl Löwith

  - Lowith, Karl. Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.  
  From the Publisher: Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in… More

• The Secular Magi : Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche on Religion

  - Newell, William Lloyd. The Secular Magi : Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche on Religion. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1986.
  From the Publisher: “What do three great minds, Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, have to say about religion? How do their thoughts affect Christian churches and the changes within them? The Secular Magi analyzes the thoughts of these men and their… More

• “Marx on Self-Consciousness, the City and the Gods”

  - Bartky, Elliot. “Marx on Self-Consciousness, the City and the Gods.” Interpretation, Vol. 19 (1991) pp. 3-28.

• The Cambridge Companion to Marx

  - Carver, Terrell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  From the Publisher: “Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as… More

• “Marx’s Anomalous Reading of Spinoza”

  - Gordon Hull. “Marx’s Anomalous Reading of Spinoza.” Interpretation, Vol. 28 (2000), pp. 17–32.
  Excerpt: ” Spinoza and Marx were thinkers who attained sufficient notoriety to become associated with certain, rather fixed, doctrinal positions. For this reason, the study of Spinoza and Marx is never fully dissociable from an encounter with Spinozism… More

• Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marx

  - Tucker, Robert C. Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marx. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.
  From the Publisher: ” In Karl Marx’s early writing (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework. Marx’s main… More

• Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

  - Kolakowski, Leszek, and P. S Falla. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
  From the Publisher: “Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his definitive Main… More