The Holy Family

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Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Critique is a book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in November 1844 and published in 1845. The book is a critique of the Young Hegelians and their trend of thought, which was very popular in academic circles at the time. The title was a suggestion by the publisher and is meant as a sarcastic reference to the Bauer Brothers and their supporters. The book created a controversy with much of the press and caused Bruno Bauer to refute the book in an article which was published in Wigand's Vierteljahrsschrift in 1845. Bauer claimed that Marx and Engels misunderstood what he was saying. Marx later replied to his response with his own article that was published in the journal Gesellschaftsspiegel in January 1846. Marx also discussed the argument in the second chapter of The German Ideology.

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Type: Book
Genres: essay
Created by: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels