Friedrich Engels travels in a chimney
Edited book (chapter)
Althofer, Jayson. 2024. "Friedrich Engels travels in a chimney." Forsdick, Charles, Kinsley, Zoë and Walchester, Kate (ed.) Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection. Anthem Press. pp. 79-96
| Chapter Title | Friedrich Engels travels in a chimney |
|---|---|
| Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
| ERA Publisher ID | 1145 |
| Book Title | Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection |
| Authors | Althofer, Jayson |
| Editors | Forsdick, Charles, Kinsley, Zoë and Walchester, Kate |
| Page Range | 79-96 |
| Chapter Number | 5 |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Anthem Press |
| ISBN | 9781839986598 |
| 9781839986604 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.15729470.9 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15729470.9 |
| Abstract | In their youth, Karl Marx (1818–83) and Friedrich Engels (1820–95) were peripatetic poets, philosophers and revolutionaries. Marx’s satiric verse ‘On Hegel’ (1837) has his subject scouring city streets for truth: ‘Kant and Fichte soar to heavens blue / Seeking for some distant land, / I but seek to grasp profound and true / That which – in the street I find’.¹ But the dash signifies that ‘[w]hat the Hegelian speaker embraces on the streets is not truth but Kot, excrement’.² In his 1873 afterword to Capital, volume 1 (1867), Marx recalled finding the dialectic ‘standing on its head’ in... |
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| Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
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