{"product_id":"9781685901233-breaking-the-bonds-of-fate","title":"Breaking the Bonds of Fate","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEpicurus and Marx\u003cbr\u003eThe immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire Karl Marx, and formed 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. Until now, however, there has been\u003cbr\u003eThe  immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus  (341-270 BCE), helped inspire Karl Marx, and formed 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. Until now, however, there has been no full scholarly treatment  of the relation of Epicurus to Marx, paying equal attention to both thinkers  and examining the long-term impact of Epicureanism on Marxist thought. \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx fills this gap. Taking into  consideration today’s revolution in the understanding of Epicurus—resulting  from the recovery of fragments of his major work On Nature in the carbonized  papyri that survived the burying in volcanic ash of the Roman town  Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE—it demonstrates that this new  interpretation corresponds closely to Marx’s nineteenth-century treatment of  Epicurus. The result is to fundamentally transform our contemporary  understanding of both Epicurus and Marx.   The last (though logically the first) book to be written in a trilogy  that also includes John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and  Nature (2000) and his The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020),  Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx provides a detailed historical  and textual analysis grounding the argument of all three works. Not only does  this clarify Marx’s relation to materialism and ecology, but also his  analysis of the of freedom and necessity. Both Epicurus’ philosophy and that  of Marx are given new meaning in our time, highlighting questions of  substantive equality, dialectical naturalism, and sustainable community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56700084257142,"sku":"9781685901233","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39006647.jpg?v=1767769339","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781685901233-breaking-the-bonds-of-fate","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}