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Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition
Isaiah Berlin
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Description for Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition
Paperback. Tells the biography of Karl Marx who has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. This book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context. Editor(s): Hardy, Henry. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344.
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality. Berlin takes readers through Marx's years of adolescent rebellion and post-university communist agitation, the ... Read more
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality. Berlin takes readers through Marx's years of adolescent rebellion and post-university communist agitation, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156507
SKU
V9780691156507
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About Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, and Against the Current (all Princeton). Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah ... Read more
Reviews for Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition
"A model of objective clarity."
Richard Charques, Times Literary Supplement "[Berlin's] book, a perennial classic, has all the virtues of Berlin himself: charm, erudition, and (occasionally) grandiloquence."
Peter E. Gordon, New Republic "The best brief account of the life and thought of Marx."
Saturday Review "Exceptional ... [A]s a portrait of the man and the intellectual climate of the mid-nineteenth century it is, ... Read more
Richard Charques, Times Literary Supplement "[Berlin's] book, a perennial classic, has all the virtues of Berlin himself: charm, erudition, and (occasionally) grandiloquence."
Peter E. Gordon, New Republic "The best brief account of the life and thought of Marx."
Saturday Review "Exceptional ... [A]s a portrait of the man and the intellectual climate of the mid-nineteenth century it is, ... Read more