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Breaking the bonds of fate : Epicurus and Marx / John Bellamy Foster.

Foster, John Bellamy, author.
2025
HX39.5
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Title
Breaking the bonds of fate : Epicurus and Marx / John Bellamy Foster.
Author
Foster, John Bellamy, author.
ISBN
1685901255 (electronic bk.)
9781685901257 (electronic bk.)
1685901239
9781685901233 (cloth)
Published
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2025]
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (327 pages) : black and white illustrations
Call Number
HX39.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
335.4
Summary
The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.Marx's detailed study of Epicurus led him to develop his own materialist dialectic in distinction to the idealist philosophy of G.W.F.Hegel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Breaking the bonds of fate.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Epicurus and Hellenistic Athens
Chapter Two: Epicurus's Materialist Philosophy
Chapter Three: Marx and Epicurus
Chapter Four: Marxism and Epicureanism
Notes
Names Index
Subject Index

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