| Title:
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KARL MARX
HIS LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT |
| By: |
Isaiah Berlin |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195103262 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195103267 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
8 August, 2002 |
| Edition: |
4 Rev ed |
| Pages: |
242 |
| Description: |
Isaiah Berlin''s Karl Marx is considered the classic short account of the life and thought of the theorist of the socialist revolution. With a new Introduction by Alan Ryan that elucidates the enduring value of this work and its place in Marxist scholarship, this is a compelling history of ideas as well as a portrait of one of the twentieth century''s most incendiary thinkers. |
| Synopsis: |
First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of socialism has long been considered a classic of modern scholarship and the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. It provides a penetrating, lucid, and comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, and concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism as a theory and practice. Berlin goes on to present an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the twentieth century and depicts the social and political atmosphere in which Marx wrote. This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Ryan which traces the place of Berlin's Marx from its pre-World War II publication to the present, and elucidates why Berlin's portrait, in the midst of voluminous writings about Marx, remains the classic account of the personal and political side of this monumental figure. |
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