Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth edition
by Isaiah Berlin 2021-01-01 06:20:37
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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 ... 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 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.

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  • 8.5 X 5.5 X 0 in
  • 352
  • Princeton University Press
  • November 10, 2013
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  • 9780691156507
Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia, and in Petrograd in 1917 Berlin witnessed both Revolutions - Social Democratic and Bolshevi...
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