Karl Marx's criticism and transcendence of the Young Hegelians were certainly not suddenly happened.In fact,Bruno Bauer had realized the dilemma of German philosophy in face of the reality,he chose to advocate the full development of initiative of self-consciousness and reject the unifying influence of transcendental rationality on self-consciousness.Nevertheless,Bauer suspended so called"Universal Self-consciousness"and fell into paradox.Marx followed Bauer's pace and broke through this paradox by changing the way of confirming subjectivity and downgrading the status of subjectivity,through which Marx opened the prelude to the view of historical materialism.
Bruno Bauerself-consciousnessGerman idealismhistorical materialism