Ted:
> Marx does not reduce Kant's "production through freedom" to "techne".
>
> For instance, like Kant (for whom "production through freedom" can "only
> prove purposive as play, i.e. as occupation which is pleasant in itself"
> Critique of Judgment p. 146) he conceives production through freedom as an
> end-in-itself, an activity whose subject is the "universally developed
> individual". (As I pointed out earlier, the role Marx assigns to "class"
> can be made consistent with this by interpreting it in terms of Hegel's
> account of the role of the master/slave relation in the development of
> rational self-consciousness.)
A few points: Kant is writing about artistic production, the act of
producing a work of art, so I have trouble with your argument that
Kant is anticipating what Marx later says about work. The
master/slave dialectic comes early in the Phen. and is eventually
sublated by stoicism
> Kant, Goethe and Hegel are sublated by Marx. My interpretive thesis is that
> the ideas set out in the passages I quoted are positively preserved in this
> sublation.
I would say Marx is influenced by them. But we now know there is
a lot more in Hegel than he thought, plenty more than the extra he
saw after he went back to Hegel.
> Ted
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