Karl Marx, his life and environment

Description

First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of modern Communism has long been considered 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, concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism. In turn, Berlin presents an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the nineteenth century and brilliantly 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 Karl Marx from its pre-World War II publication to the present, and shows why Berlin's portrait, in the midst of voluminous writings about Marx, remains a classic account of the personal and political side of this monumental figure.

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Other Editions

• Karl Marx, his life and environmentOxford University Press1978-01-01
• Karl MarxThornton Butterworth1939-01-01
• Karl MarxButterworth1939-01-01
• Karl Marx, his life and environment.Oxford Univ. Press1948-01-01
• Karl Marx, his life and environment.Oxford Univ. Press1948-01-01
• Karl MarxOxford University Press1959-01-01