Comparative Analysis of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
Comparative Analysis of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Must be 1250 words. The paper invites you to pursue a comparative examination of the classical thinkers, whose theories of conflict and change played a decisive role in the formation of contemporary culture, art and politics. As much as their methods vary, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud meet in a shared critique (or, “hermeneutics of suspicion”) of self, value and society. But they also diverge in their analytical categories, critical methods, and theoretical vocabulary: historical materialism, post-metaphysical philosophy, and theory of the unconscious, respectively.
In your paper, therefore, you are expected to articulate points of contrast as well as convergence in their writings from a specific lens such as religion, history, power, determinants of human behavior, etc. Your paper should critically discuss the value and limits of each of these thinkers’ methods of critique, and their respective diagnoses of modern culture and society.
Sample Solution
We may not realize it, but we all have a male philosopher from the nineteenth century in our lives. Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud are titans of thought, men of wit and will who challenged the established quo.
Their ideas affected the lives of millions in the twentieth century, and their influence continues to grow in the twenty-first. The theories and aphorisms of these three dead white males undergird everyday experiences, from pop tunes to global economy to our views toward sex. ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,’ Nietzsche argued; ‘the pleasure-principle,’ ‘wish-fulfillment,’ and ‘anally retentive’ are all terms coined by Sigmund Freud.
