L’« agir ensemble » ( Zusammenwirken ) chez Moses Hess et Karl Marx

Abstract

Young hegelianism has been the crux of conceptual creations. Among the concepts showcased by this school of thought, one, developed by Moses Hess and Karl Marx, was Zusammenwirken: “acting together”. For both thinkers, this concept, together with those of reciprocal action and activity exchange, was a tool to think social action and society itself. This essay aims at figuring out how specific Hess’s conception of “acting together” was. It purports to define this concept by taking into consideration that Hess used it in a two-fold enterprise: developing both a philosophy of history and a representation of the present as the locus of a potential shift from a middleman-and-mediator-based “acting together” to a consciously and self-organized one.