Eric Rahim, in his work titled A Promethean Vision: The Formation of Karl Marx’s Worldview, has, in tracing the trajectory of Marx’s thought, made an admirable intellectual contribution to the history of ideas.
This review will make Rahim’s analysis a point of departure to develop further his point about Marx’s concept of human consciousness — a concept that is central to both the ‘early’ Marx as well as the ‘mature’ Marx. In clarifying the idea of human consciousness, it would be necessary to at least indicate the complexity of the relationship between the individual and history that Marx faces.