John Fox 
Marx, the Body, and Human Nature 

Marx, the Body, and Human Nature shows that the body and the broader material world played a far more significant role in Marx’s theory than previously recognised. It provides a fresh ‘take’ on Marx’s theory, revealing a much more open, dynamic and unstable conception of the body, the self, and human nature.

Table of Content

1. Introduction: evading the body

2. Early influences: pain and promise

3. Spinoza ‘ ‘s revolution

4. Hegel: wrestling with desire

5. Feuerbach: embracing limitation

6. Marx ‘ ‘s Objective Being

7. Marx ‘ ‘s Species Being

8. Marx and Species Consciousness

9. The promise of the body

About the author

John Fox lectures in social work at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.