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Published: 10th March 2009Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension of this volume is to place Marx's writings in their historical context and to separate what he actually said from what others (in particular, Engels) interpreted him as saying. Informed by current debates and new perspectives, the volume provides a comprehensive coverage of all the major areas to which Marx made significant contributions.
"...this is a solid and useful book for introducing students and non-specialists to the learned and clear-thinking discourse which has come to characterize much scholarly Marxian inquiry in the closing decades of the twentieth century." Canadian Philosophical Reviews "Its 13 chapters include some of the best Anglo-American authors on Karl Marx...the unimpeachable quality of individual chapters demonstrates the enduring value of Marx's text." Library Journal
| List of contributors | |
| Chronology | |
| Reading Marx: life and works | |
| Critical reception: Marx then and now | |
| Social and political theory: class, state, revolution | |
| Science: realism, criticism, history | |
| History: critique and irony | |
| Moral philosophy: the critique of capitalism and the problem of ideology | |
| Political philosophy: Marx and radical democracy | |
| Reproduction and the materialist conception of history: a feminist critique | |
| Gender: biology, nature, and capitalism | |
| Aesthetics: liberating the senses | |
| Logic: dialectic and contradiction | |
| History of philosophy: the metaphysics of substance in | |
| Religion: illusions and liberation | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521366946
ISBN-10: 0521366941
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 376
Published: 11th May 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2
x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.5
