TY - JOUR N2 - In his philosophical commentary to the thought of Karl Marx, Leszek Kołakowski refers to his assimilation of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy. He pays particular attention to the swinging of Hegel’s theory ‘the right side up’ and standing him on a pair of feet instead of the head. Marx undertook the difficult task of ensuring a unity of man in a way quite different from the attempts made by either Kant or Hegel. They all wanted to abolish the contingency in human life, but in Marx’s thought the abolishing of the contingency is nothing else but a subjecting of a human being to his/her own existence. A man is no longer dependent on alienated forces that he has created himself, neither is he dependent on an anonymous society. Taking clue from Kołakowski we can say that exteriorisation of natural forces has replaced exteriorisation of consciousness and the Absolute Being of man is realized in his/her actual being. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109533/PDF/PF%204-18%2028-A.Turon-Kowalska.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109533 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 418 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2018.125515 KW - L. Kołakowski KW - Marxism KW - Hegelianism KW - human being KW - freedom A1 - Turoń-Kowalska, Agnieszka PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2019.01.30 T1 - Karl Marx’s ‘absolute being of man’in the thought of Leszek Kołakowski SP - 405 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109533 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -