A Contextualization of Marx's Doctoral Dissertation and the Problem of the Freedom Concept——A Critical Revival of the Philosophy of Self-Consciousness
The"Vormärz"is a special period in German history,a time when German freedom was severely restricted.It is similar to the Hellenistic period in terms of social history and ideology,and this similarity makes"self-consciousness"a source of intellectual thought and a concept that the young Hegelian thinkers were attracted to,while the dissolution of the Hegelian school provided the soil for the exaltation of self-consciousness,which represents freedom,and in turn,provided a theoretical opportunity for the Marx's study of the philosophy of self-consciousness.Against this background,Marx,who was deeply influenced by the Young Hegelians,accurately grasped the pulse of the times,and in his Doctoral Dissertation made an in-depth comparison between the two anatomist in the Hellenistic period,and answered the questions of how freedom was possible in the philosophy of"self-consciousness"and how freedom could be realized.Although Marx was also in a period of ideological transformation in the early 1940s,unlike Bruno Bauer and other"self-conscious"philosophers,Marx put forward unique insights into the specificity of"self-consciousness",the relationship between thought and existence,and philosophy and reality.This is Marx's thinking and shouting in the era when freedom was bound,and also Marx's initial concern for materialism.