 | Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx - 1941 - 95 pages
...content of the book itself. (See note on page 70 of this volume.— Ed.) Karl Marx Theses on Feuerbach1 i THE chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the object, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or contemplation 2 but not... | |
 | James Miller, Jim Miller - 1982 - 306 pages
...materialism. One of Marx's central objections to Feuerbach concerned his passive portrayal of subjectivity. "The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as... | |
 | Julia Kristeva - 1984 - 288 pages
...stresses above all the orientation of practice toward externality, objectivity, and the real. Marx writes: "The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism...that of Feuerbach included — is that the thing, reality, sensuousness is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation but not as human... | |
 | Trygve R. Tholfsen - 1984 - 324 pages
...subjected to a trenchant critique, and distinguished his own position from eighteenth-century materialism: "The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism...that of Feuerbach included — is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as... | |
 | Karl Marx - 1986 - 354 pages
...human nature; the eleventh - and most famous for demanding a new, practical conception of philosophy. I The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as... | |
 | Howard Selsam, Harry Martel - 1963 - 390 pages
...Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 45-46. B. THESES ON FEUERBACH: THE OLD AND THE NEW MATERIALISM* i The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism...that of Feuerbach included — is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as... | |
 | Brian Morris - 1987 - 386 pages
...unhistorical, for the natural world, he suggests, is not simply given in sense experience. In Marx's view, The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the things, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object, or of contemplation, but... | |
 | W.J. Gavin - 1988 - 278 pages
...traditional naturalism, and with its idealistic alternative. This represented simply a false dichotomy. The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism - that of Feuerbach included - is that the thing [Cegenstand], reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object [Objekt] or of contemplation... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1987 - 640 pages
...opposite abstraction from activity (subjectivity). In his first thesis "ad Feuerbach," Marx writes: The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism...— that of Feuerbach included — is that the thing [ Gegenstand] , reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object [Objekt] or of contemplation... | |
 | Sue Golding, Susan R. Golding - 1992 - 250 pages
...part. Indeed, it was a tendency Marx himself had already criticized and dismissed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: 'The chief defect of all hitherto existing...materialism - that of Feuerbach included - is that the thing [Gegenstand], reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object [Objekt] or of contemplation... | |
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The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as human sensuous activity, practice, not subjectively. 
