Autore
Quadflieg, Dirk

Titolo
Nature and Negativity. The Time of the Genus-Being in Marx and Hegel
Periodico
Politica & società
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 41 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 269 - Pagina finale: 286

This paper examines the concept of genus-being in Karl Marx’s early writings, focusing on its relation to negativity, freedom, and temporality. Challenging Reiner Schürmann’s critique, which sees genus-being as a notion that subsumes individuals under a predetermined universal, the paper proposes an alternative reading. It argues that Marx’s genus-being should be understood not as a fixed essence but as an open-ended process of self-determination, grounded in what can be called a negative anthropology. Drawing on Hegel’s concept of negativity, the paper emphasizes the mode of the not yet in Marx’s thought: the idea that human nature is not yet actualized and thus open for being continually shaped through historical and social practice. In this reading, alienation is not merely a loss of an original unity but a condition that signals an unrealized potential for collective self-transformation.



SICI: 2240-7901(2025)41:3<269:NANTTO>2.0.ZU;2-R
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