Theory and practice

Nathan Rotenstreich

pp. 49-62

in: Tom Bottomore, Marxist sociology, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1975

Abstract

… philosophy has reached so classical a point that it has to transcend itself and thus to yield up the Universal Empire to another … to practical social life.… From now on, the absolutely practical, that is, social action and life within the state … will be the Ultimate … Being and thought have to perish in action, art and philosophy in social life, in order to re-emerge and to unfold in the ultimate form of social life.2