Manuscritos de economía y filosofía

The "Manuscripts" on economics and philosophy, written in 1844, were not published during Karl Marx's (1818-1883) lifetime and remained unpublished until almost fifty years after his death. The publication of these drafts in 1932 represented a true revolution in Marxian studies and an incentive for the critique of economicist approaches to history; since then, discussions between the "young Marx" and the "mature Marx" have fueled an endless controversy about the lines of continuity or the points of rupture in his thought. In any case—and perhaps even more so today, when at the beginning of the 21st century the capitalist system is once again showing its most negative aspects—the reading of these texts, translated into Spanish and with a prologue by Francisco Rubio Llorente, shows the importance of the concept of alienation and philosophical humanism in the whole of Marx's work.

The "Manuscripts" on economics and philosophy, written in 1844, were not published during Karl Marx's (1818-1883) lifetime and remained unpublished until almost fifty years after his death. The publication of these drafts in 1932 represented a true revolution in Marxian studies and an incentive for the critique of economicist approaches to history; since then, discussions between the "young Marx" and the "mature Marx" have fueled an endless controversy about the lines of continuity or the points of rupture in his thought. In any case—and perhaps even more so today, when at the beginning of the 21st century the capitalist system is once again showing its most negative aspects—the reading of these texts, translated into Spanish and with a prologue by Francisco Rubio Llorente, shows the importance of the concept of alienation and philosophical humanism in the whole of Marx's work.