Originally published in English in 1984, this collection of essays documents a dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism, with the contributors representing a cross-section from the two traditions. The theoretical and historical presuppositions of the phenomenology of Husserl are very different from those of the older Marxist tradition, yet, as these essays show, there are definite points of contact, communication and exchange.

Preface Part 1: Concepts and Methods 1. Phenomenology and Marxism in Historical Perspective 2. Marxism and the Hermeneutic Tradition 3. The Problem of Teleology and Corporeality in Phenomenology and Marxism 4. Overcoming the Opposition Between Idealism and Materialism in Husserl and Marx 5. Towards an Open Dialectic 6. The Unity of Theory and Praxis as a Problem for Marxism, Phenomenology and Structuralism 7. Ideology and Ideology Critique Part 2: Practical Philosophy 8. Life-world and the Historicity of Human Existence 9. Marx's Critique of Morality as an Introduction to the Problem of his Philosophy as a Whole 10. Behavioural Norm and Behavioural Context 11. 'Meaning in the Use' OR On the Irrelevance of the Theory of Meaning for Practical Philosophy 12. Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Marxist Scientism