Karl Marx / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Alan Ryan ; afterword and guide to further reading by Terrell Carver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Contributor:

Hardy, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Communists--Biography.

Communists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

5th ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 "ations and allusions, Terrell Carver's assessment of the distinctiveness of Berlin's book, and a revised guide to further reading.

Contents:

Introduction

Childhood and adolescence

The philosophy of 'the spirit'

The young Hegelians

Paris

Historical materialism

1848

Exile in London: the first phase

The international

The Red Terror doctor

Last years.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781400848119

1400848113

OCLC:

855907801