Primary texts:

Karl Marx, “Introduction” to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)

• in The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), pp. 16-25

• on-line at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm 

Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question,”

• in The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), pp. 26-52

• on-line at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/

Secondary text:

Claude Lefort, “Politics and Human Rights,” in The Political Forms of Modern Society, pp. 239-282

• Claude Lefort, “Droits de l’homme et politique,” Libre. Politique, anthropologie, philosophie, vol. 7, 3-42 (1980).

Additional Resources:

Jean Louise Cohen, Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (University of Massachusetts Press, 1982)

Entretien avec Claude Lefort, EHESS, 12 avril 1996