Current Themes in Sociology
Csaba Szaló
2023
Karl Marx
A genuine human
universality
• Hegel: the state as a concrete
embodiment of reason: 

Law

Citizen

Rights

• Marx: the classless society: 

Needs 

Human life

Division of labour
Marxism and bourgeois
sociology
• What constitutes human
being’s humanity in the
contemporary world?

• Humanity revealed in the
forms of the conditions of life.

• Society implicitly based on a
certain view of human being.

• Radically this-worldly view of
human existence.
Self-reliance and atheism:
Prometheus.
• What is the vital impulse behind
theory? The passion for human
emancipation.

• Basing prophecies on purely
scientific insights! To
encompass the totality of our
time.

• The possibility of political
intervention: The division and
the unity of science and
politics.