ISSN 1918-7351 Volume 12 (2020) Phenomenology and Marxism according to Landgrebe: On “The Problem of Teleology and Corporeality in Phenomenology and Marxism” 1 Noé Expósito & Agata Bąk The aim of this paper is to explore the link that Landgrebe establishes between phenomenology and Marxism in “The Problem of Teleology and Corporeality in Phenomenology and Marxism” (1977) and unfold its more far-reaching implications for both traditions. Landgrebe’s short yet dense paper explores the 2 very basic insight he considers both thinkers to hold in common, namely, that praxis is an essential feature of human consciousness and needs to be grounded in philosophical inquiry. The first step in our research is accordingly to reconstruct Noé Expósito’s research is supported by a grant awarded by the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura 1 y Deporte Spain within the National Program for Training Human Resources, subprogram Training University Lecturers (FPU) (2015–2019). He develops his research within “Vigencia, productividad y retos de la crítica inmanente en la filosofía social actual” (FFI2013-47230-P) Research Project, funded by Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, España, directed by José Manuel Romero Cuevas as well as within "Fenomenología del cuerpo y análisis del dolor II" (FFI 2017-82272-P) Research Project, funded by Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, España, directed by Agustín Serrano de Haro. The present paper represents further work on a topic the authors have already addressed on at least two occasions. A draft of this text was presented during the international workshop “Exploring Landgrebe’s Contributions to Phenomenology” at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in September 2017. The authors wish to express their gratitude to Sylvain Camilleri for his invitation. Our first joint work on Landgrebe’s publication dates back to 2016 and was published as a commentary on Landgrebe’s “The problem of teleology and corporeality in phenomenology and Marxism” (1977): see Agata Bak and Noé Expósito, “Nota introductoria a ‘El problema de la teleología y la corporalidad en la fenomenología y en el marxismo,’ de Ludwig Landgrebe,” Acta Mexicana de Fenomenología 2 (2017), 81–92. The authors wish to express their gratitude towards Elizabeth A. Behnke who kindly accepted to review and proofread the manuscript, polished the style and suggested some philosophically relevant changes. Ludwig Landgrebe, “Das Problem der Teleologie und der Leiblichkeit in der Phänomenologie und 2 im Marxismus,” in Phänomenologie und Marxismus, Bernhard Waldenfels, Jan M. Broekman, and Ante Pažanin (eds.), vol. 1, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977, 71–104. There is an English version of the paper in Phenomenology and Marxism, trans. J. Claude Evans, Jr. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), 53–81. In what follows we quote the paper referring both to the German original (first page reference) and to the English text (second page reference). 1