@article{ART003099598},
author={kim Hyun},
title={K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2024},
number={45},
pages={23-56},
doi={10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002}
TY - JOUR
AU - kim Hyun
TI - K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2024
VL - null
IS - 45
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 23
EP - 56
SN - 1975-1621
AB - This paper attempts to critically reexamine Marx’s materialism in opposition to new materialism characterized by anti-dialectics, anti-intermediacy, and anti-historicity, which are the hallmarks of a new materialism. It starts from Marx’s concept of the ‘body’. In Marx’s thought, the ‘body’ occupies a central position as a crucial concept that situates humans as one among the beings of the natural world. The body shares an ontological status with what new materialists term ‘objects’, But it differs from ‘objects’ through the characteristic activity. Based on this perspective of Marx on the body, this paper involves the following discussions: First, Chapter 2 of this paper extract several theses of new materialism, naming them ‘impulses toward the direct world of objects’, and critically examine them from a Marxian perspective. Chapter 3 focuses on Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, analyzing the thesis “nature is the inorganic body of man” concerning the relationship between ‘nature’ and the ‘human body’. Chapter 4 reexamines the core concepts of New Materialism, such as ‘the return to objects’ or ‘the redemption of the world of objects’, by integrating them with Marx’s theory of alienation. In Chapter 5, the commonalities and differences between Marx’s bodily materialism and idealism are discerned, leading to a provisional assessment of idealism as a materialism devoid of humanity.
KW - new materialism;bodily materialism;body;nature;dialectic
DO - 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
ER -
kim Hyun. (2024). K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 45, 23-56.
kim Hyun. 2024, "K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.45, pp.23-56. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
kim Hyun "K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 45 pp.23-56 (2024) : 23.
kim Hyun. K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism. 2024; 45 : 23-56. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
kim Hyun. "K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.45(2024) : 23-56.doi: 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
kim Hyun. K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 45, 23-56. doi: 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
kim Hyun. K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2024; 45 23-56. doi: 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
kim Hyun. K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism. 2024; 45 : 23-56. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
kim Hyun. "K. Marx’s Bodily Materialism and New Materialism" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.45(2024) : 23-56.doi: 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.002
