But a more troubling amphibology still possibly ‘inhabits’ our attempts to interpret the intellectual operation whereby Marx deconstructs and redefines what is to be understood by ‘human essence’
[...] in the case of the human species, which was thereby distinguished from every other species, individuals possess another essential attribute, consisting in their consciousness of their relationship to the common kind. Human beings are not only defined by membership of the human race but …
However, Marx’s original is not simply a lapsus calami: not only does it exist (with the same etymology) in an older form of German, but it is to be found in theological contexts
Marx's use of the term inwohnend
Those who wish today to philosophize in Marx not only come after him, but come after Marxism: they cannot be content merely to register the caesura Marx created, but must also think on the ambivalence of the effects that caesura produced – both in its proponents and its opponents
