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ANTINOMIES
Until 01.01.2019 - Scientific Yearbook of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

ISSN 2686-7206 (Print)

ISSN 2686-925X (Оnlinе)

Kondrashov Pyotr

In the article, an attempt is made to prove that Karl Marx’s philosophy is one of the forms of existential philosophy (but not the Existentialism nor the existentialistic philosophy). The author understands it as a type of philosophizing where the main problem is the problem of the human being, of the authenticity and inauthenticity of his existence-in-worlds (in-der-Welt-sein), of his attitudes towards the world and non-indifferent experience of these attitudes. The author shows that all such basic questions of the existential philosophy are touched in Marx's philosophy, namely: problem of essence and existence, Existenz, being-in-world, suffering, authenticity and inauthenticity of human life, alienation (Entäußerung, Entfremdung), existential temporality, and historicity. Moreover, all these existential problems (and not just the problem of alienation) take place in Marx's thought through all its development, and not just during the early period of his work as it is usually considered. The author draws the conclusion that Karl Marx's philosophy represents the rationalistic, humanistic and revolutionary-optimistic version of existential philosophy. He considers that human life finds the authenticity not in-itself but only in active transcending of Existenz in the world.

Keywords: Marx's philosophy, existential philosophy, authenticity and inauthenticity of human life, alienation, suffering, existential non-indifference, existential temporality, historicity, freedom.

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