...the book itself. (See note on page 70 of this volume.— Ed.) Karl Marx Theses on Feuerbach1 i THE chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the object, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or contemplation 2 but not...

...MARX THESES ON FEUERBACH I The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feucrbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness,...form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the...

...idealism to remedy the defect of a materialism which conceived "the thing, reality, sensuousness . . . only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively" (Marx 1965, p. 661; written in 1845). "Feuerbach,...

...purely passive medium!9 Or as Marx writes: The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism ... is that the thing, reality, sensuousness is conceived...but not as human sensuous activity, practice, not subjectively.10 Scientific knowledge, for Marx and Nietzsche, is the product of active people molding...

...insight into reality as it is experienced in all its intensity through sensation — Marx stated: "The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism...— that of Feuerbach included — is that the thing (Gegenstand), reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object (Object] or of contemplation...

...Karl Marx: Theses on Feuerbach (1845) I. The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism ... is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived...form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the...

...materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the things [Gegenstand], reality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the...

...In the first of his Theses on Feuerbach (1845), Marx wrote: "The chief defect of all materialism ... is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived...form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively." This passage leads us to understand that Marx...

...poststructuralist materialism to the list — "is that the things [Gegenstand], reality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object, or of contemplation,...human sensuous activity, practice, not subjectively" (Theses 6). And "human sensuous activity" is above all, for Marx, labor: the way people "produce their...

...of which is superior to society. Again: "The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism ... is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of an object of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively."1Perhaps...