Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition - Softcover

Berlin, Isaiah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691156506 ISBN 13: 9780691156507

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2013

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Review:

"Isaiah Berlin's Karl Marx remains fresh and engaging and continues to stand as a compelling portrait of Marx's character, historical context, and fierce intellectual and political struggles. In Berlin's unique manner, the book fuses deft descriptions of ideas, colorful personalities, and social and political movements viewed within the broad sweep of history. His prose is precise and eloquent, often pithy, and never obscure. And the commentaries by Alan Ryan and Terrell Carver are excellent accompaniments to the volume."--Steven Lukes, New York University

"The author's admirable ability to translate many abstruse and obscure notions of Marxism into a clear language and his virtuosity in showing connections between personalities, characters, and attitudes on the one hand and doctrinal issues on the other are unparalleled in the existing literature."--Leszek Kolakowski, author of Main Currents of Marxism

"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, perhaps, the finest we have."---Chimen Abramsky, Jewish Chronicle

"[Berlin's] accounts of Marx's theses are sometimes more effective than Marx's own words, and his descriptions of Marx as a man are remarkably vivid."---H. B. Acton, Political Studies

"Berlin's attitude to his subject is exemplary, and on the whole it is the best introduction to it that we have. . . . [The book] makes Marx intelligible, both as a person and as a thinker."---A. L. Rowse, Political Quarterly

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0691156506
• ISBN 13: 9780691156507
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Hardy Henry