...J. M. Bernstein Cornell University 2001 MARX'S ATTEMPT TO LEAVE PHILOSOPHY. By Daniel Brudney. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, BOOK FEVLEWS itselfas its own source. As thinkers, we relate to ourselves originally, in the act...

... of labor is said to consist in its failure to conform to some standard of what labor ought to be like, where this standard may have any number of separate dimensions. In Daniel Brudney’s (2018: 216–17) words, “Alienation is a function of a multiply deficient relation between the worker’s actual activity...

... framing of a new and compelling vision of the good life, Brudney falls back into all the fatalities of philosophical hubris, no matter how modest in appearance, from which Marx was attempting to extract himself. J. M. BERNSTEIN Vanderbilt University...