1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454777903321

Autore

Marx Karl <1818-1883.>

Titolo

Marx on religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Raines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2002

ISBN

9786612272240

1-282-27224-1

1-59213-805-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RainesJohn C

Disciplina

335.4/092

Soggetti

Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; PART I: THE YOUNG MAN MARX; PART II: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE MATERIAL WORLD; PART III: BAD WORK/GOOD WORK; PART IV: THE CRITICISM OF RELIGION; PART V: OCCASIONAL WRITINGS; Marx; Engels; Personal Letters; Study Guide for Students

Sommario/riassunto

""Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions.""Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum that ""religion is the opiate of the masses."" How can one reconcile such different perspectives on the power and ubiquity of religion?In this compact reader of Marx's essential thought on religion,