From: "Stuart Elden" <stuart.elden-AT-clara.co.uk>
Subject: Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:25:48 -0000


Jan - in response to the question a couple of weeks back about Marx and
Heidegger, I came across this in some old photocopies. Others may know this
already, but it might be appropriate.

"The question concerning the demand for world change leads back to a much
quoted sentence of Karl Marx, taken from the 'Theses on Feuerbach'.
I will quote him precisely by reading aloud: 'The philosophers have merely
_interpreted_ the world in different ways; now the task is to _change_ it'.
By quoting this sentence _and_ by adhering to these thoughts, one overlooks
the fact that a world change presupposes a change of _world idea_ and that a
world idea is only to be obtained by sufficient _interpretation_ of the
world.
That means, Marx rests on a specific interpretation of the world in order to
claim his 'change' and thereby he shows that this statement is not
established. He gives the impression that he has decidedly spoken against
philosophy, while, in the second part of the statement, the unspoken demand
for a philosophy is tacitly assumed".

(Martin Heidegger in Conversation, edited by Richard Wisser, translated by B
Srinivasa Murthy, India: Arnold Heinemann, 1977, pp. 39-40)

I presume there is a German original - isn't there a volume called MH im
Gesprach - but i don't have this, sorry.

Best wishes

Stuart

(also apparently known as 'a certain Doctor from Warwick')




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