How to Read Marx, 1st Edition
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- Paperback
146 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2006
Summary
Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx’s writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx’s thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings.Drawing on passages from a wide range of Marx’s writings, and showing the links among them, Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic thinker. What Marx meant by “materialism,” “communism,” and the “critique of political economy” was much richer and mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393328783 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0393328783 |
| Author: | Peter Osborne, Simon Critchley |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 146 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 167g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 13mm |
| Series: | How to Read |
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About The Author
Peter Osborne
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and founding Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), now at Kingston University London. He is a long-serving member of the editorial collective of the UK journal Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time, Philosophy in Cultural Theory, Conceptual Art and Marx. Simon Critchley is a best-selling author and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include The Book of Dead Philosophers, Bowie, and Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us.
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