I am posting an extract from Alfred Sohn-Rethel's book "Intellectual and
Manual Labour". It is long (about 10 000 words) and worse, all paragraph
breaks have somehow got lost. However, this is a key work for anyone
interested in Marxist epistemology.
I knew Alfred Sohn-Rethel quite well. He lived in Birmingham, England, for
many years. He left Hitler Germany in the late 1930s as a political exile.
Sohn-Rethel is generally considered to be a minor but important member opf
the Frankfurt School. He knew most of its members well and in the 1930s he
studied or worked with, Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse. In the 1970s,
Sohn-Rethel did visit the United States and gave lecture tours. Some people
on the List may remember him from those days.
As a very young man Sohn-Rethel lived through the calamities and
revolutionary excitement of Germany in 1919: "though not a member of the
Spartacus movement, I was stirred by the political events, partaking in
discussions at street-corners and public meeting-halls, lying under
window-sills while bullets pierced the windows - experiences which are
traced in the pages to follow." He remained true to the political commitment
he made in those days, but he also remained true to the Critical Method, and
the unrelenting pursuit of philosophical insight.
Mark
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