Abstract
Can society be explained, defined, and “saved” solely in terms of the history of man’s relationship to nature? In the effort to prove secularism equal to the task of an independent human history, Marx and his interpreters have had to give materiality to many of the images characteristically ascribed to the spiritual state. Secular order begins with the assumption that morality is completely and infallibly understood in the forms of adjustment man makes to nature’s requirements.1
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Glicksberg, C.I. (1972). Ignazio Silone: The Revolutionary Turned Saint. In: Literature and Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4851-3_17
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