GER150H1 Lecture Notes - The Communist Manifesto, Physical Geography
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All 3 thinkers were representatives of the 19th century (freud, marx, nietzsche) Nietzsche: went to bosnia and italy, got a teaching job when he was in his 20"s, and retired for health reasons, did not consider himself imperialist. Marx: exiled in london, escaped persecution from the nazis and put on a train to paris, friends with high ranking people (princess bonaparte) Freud: march 38 austria was occupied, freud and his family put under house arrest, allowed to leave. Impressionism art: people have more time on their hands to do other things, n. & marx were political thinkers in the deeper sense of categorizing society, all 3 thinkers embodied di erent types of critique. Marx & economy: very analytical of how capitalism works, history of economy and result of social relations that make something possible. All philosophers establish that humans are social beings marx begins by critiquing economic theories and their logical fallacies.
