Marx, Della Volpe and the "dialectic of empiricism"

Abstract

The philosopher Della Volpe, with the weight of his indisputable authority, considers that Marx's youthful text, dated 1843, the Kreuznach Notebooks (which he prefers to call the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Public Law), constitutes the most important methodological contribution of Marx's youth, the anticipation of his definitive method, which would have been formulated for the first time in 1857 in the Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy.