"German idealism was concerned with problems of human self-hood, the nature of a fulfilling human life, and people's sense of meaning, self worth and relatedness to their natural and social environment> They saw modern culture as both a scene of 'aliention' for human beings from themselves, their lives and others... "
"It was Marx in the Paris manuscripts who first attempted to see it as fundamentally a mater of social and economic conditions in which people lives, of the labouring activities they perform and the practical relationships in which they stand to one another> Marx' concern for the plight of working class was form the beginning a concern not merely with the satisfaction of 'material needs' in the usual sense, but fundamentaly with the conditions under which human beings can develop their 'essential human powers' and attain 'free self activity'.
The Philosophers, Introducing Great Western Thinkers. Ted Honderich
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