Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie) is a manuscript written by German political philosopher Karl Marx in 1843. Unpublished during his lifetime, it is a manuscript in which Marx comments on fellow philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1820 book Elements of the Philosophy of Right paragraph by paragraph. One of Marx's major criticisms of Hegel in the document is the fact that many of his dialectical arguments begin in abstraction. This work contains Marx's remark that religion is the "opium of the people" and also contains the formulations of Marx's particular alienation theory, which was informed by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach's work.

External links

• Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie, German text
• Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

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