Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

Isaiah Berlin

ISBN 10: 0691156506 / ISBN 13: 9780691156507

Published by Princeton University Press, 2013

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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. . 2013. Thoroughly Revised Fifth. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691156506
• ISBN 13: 9780691156507
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 personal high point of the 1848 revolutions, and his later years of exile, political frustration, and intellectual effort. Critical yet sympathetic, Berlin's account illuminates a life without reproducing a legend.


New features of this thoroughly revised edition include references for Berlin's quotations and allusions, Terrell Carver's assessment of the distinctiveness of Berlin's book, and a revised guide to further reading.

About the Author

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 Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.