Perils of the Future: A Discussion of Marx’s Secularization Thesis
Perils of the Future: A Discussion of Marx’s Secularization Thesis

Summary/Abstract: As both a journalist and a philosopher, Karl Marx had one eye on the present and the other on the future. This dual concern is particularly clear in On the Jewish Question, where Marx persons his theory of secularization. In this article, I claim that his account of political secularization is far more convincing; while his account of human emancipation – his wish for the future – rests on a thin reading of human rights.

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