Friedrich Engels travels in a chimney

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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
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Friedrich Engels travels in a chimney

Book Chapter CategoryEdited book (chapter)
ERA Publisher ID1145
Book TitleMicrotravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection
AuthorsAlthofer, Jayson
EditorsForsdick, Charles, Kinsley, Zoë and Walchester, Kate
Page Range79-96
Chapter Number5
Year2024
PublisherAnthem Press
ISBN9781839986598
9781839986604
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.15729470.9
Web Address (URL)https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15729470.9
AbstractIn 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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