Transcendental Anthropology. From Husserl to Marx

Abstract

Transcendental Anthropology is the foundation of the revolutionary idealism of Marx. I will expose this thesis in three main parts. First, I describe the critical or conceptual common frame to the theory of revolution and phenomenological transcendentalism, concretely over Marx and Husserl's science, nature, and life ideas. The criticism about the scientific praxis results —following Husserl– in the subjectivity of the vital processes restitution in its scientific value, i. e. the consciousness of an exploited body, dimension that I explore in the second part as the reduction or reconduction of the evolutionary processes of capitalism to a revolutionary subject as embodied ego, hungrie and alienated. In the third and final part, I put this concept of concrete transcendental subjectivity, embodied or historical, at the basis of the human gender concept, that Marx uses to establish the revolutionary goal: humanity universalization.

Keywords: Materialism, transcendentalism, subjectivity, revolution