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Before setting out to examine Marx’s conception of culture, and we can only make a tentative attempt in that direction here, quite legitimate doubts as to the very formulation of the subject must be raised. Marx himself used the actual term ‘culture’ very seldom, and it failed to find a place in his basic terminology. To begin with, therefore, we must decide whether there is a sufficient case for attempting a reconsideration of parts of Marx’s sociological analyses in terms of the sociology of culture. Secondly, we must arrive at a conclusion as to the place of these analyses in the body of the general theory of sociology of culture.
A chapter from A. Kłoskowska, Z historii i socjologii kultury (From the History and Sociology of Culture), Warsaw, 1969.
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Cf G. Hegel, Fenomenologia ducha (Phenomenology of Spirit), Vol. I, Warsaw, 1963, Vol. II, Warsaw, 1965, translated by A. Landman.
K. Marx, F. Engels, Uber Kunst und Literatur, Eine Sammlung aus ihren Schriften, M. Lifschitz (Ed.), Berlin, 1953; E. Sztajerman, ‘Problemy kulturi v zapodnoi sotsiologi’, Voprosi Filosofi, No. 1, (1967); M. N. Talantova, ‘Simposium po problemam kulturi’, Voprosi Filosofi, No. 1, (1966). Much attention was paid at the conference to the problems of definition, and the general conception of culture seemed to predominate, although the problem of criteria for the distinction of different fields and levels of culture was also discussed.
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Ibid., p. 68, [p. 108].
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Kloskowska, A. (1979). The Conception of Culture According to Karl Marx. In: Wiatr, J.J. (eds) Polish Essays in the Methodology of the Social Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9353-2_3
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