Marx 200 years

Abstract

In the first essay of Three Studies on Hegel, Theodor Adorno argues with those who wonder what is "alive" and what is "dead" in the work of a great thinker. Adorno criticized the pretense of judgment, as if those who lived later could rise to the position of arbitrator. He also noted the absence of the opposite question: what does the present mean in relation to the past? This is one of the challenges faced by the authors of Marx 200 Years.