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Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Fourth Edition

By Alan Ryan , Sir Isaiah Berlin

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1996
ISBN
0195103262, 9780195103267
LCC
HX39.5 .B4 1996
Open Library ID
OL796024M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14248296 bytes)
Edition
4
Pages
256\294
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18
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Description

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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