The inorganic body in the early Marx
A limit-concept of antropocentrism
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Marx, corpo inorgânico, antropocentrismo, humanismo, intercâmbioAbstract
The article suggests that an analysis of the Marxian notion of nature as man's inorganic body has implications for a review of Latour's questioning of critique, especially for the accusation of anthropocentrism. In order to retrieve a non-anthropocentric or humanistic dimension of Marx’s critique, this notion is analyzed within the context of Marx's general arguments in those early writings, as well as regarding his Hegelian influence. The distinction between organic and inorganic body is shown to be relative to the way the relationship between work and means of subsistence is conceived. In this way, it is highlighted that the dependence of life on nature is common to all living beings, human or animal. It is therefore argued that, if the human creature is not separable from the vital processes on which it depends, this continuous exchange with nature is precisely what can be understood as universality.
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