Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | David McLellan |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Karl Marx |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishers |
Publication date | 1973 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 464 (1995 edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0333445419 |
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought is a 1973 biography of Karl Marx by the political scientist David McLellan. The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995.
Summary
McLellan deals with Marx's intellectual, political and private life. The 1995 edition includes a critical bibliography that briefly evaluates numerous works dealing with Marx and Marxism, among them Isaiah Berlin's Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939), Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution (1941), and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism (1976).[1]
Reception
The political theorist Terrell Carver described the book as, "The most comprehensive scholarly account of Marx's life and works".[2] The historian of science Roger Smith called it "readable and reliable".[3]
References
Footnotes
- ↑ McLellan 1995. pp. 269-270, 438-447.
- ↑ Carver 1995. p. 211.
- ↑ Smith 1997. p. 954.
Bibliography
- Berlin, Isaiah; Ryan, Alan; Carver, Terrell (1995). Karl Marx: His Life and Environment. London: Fontana Press. ISBN 0-00-686339-6.
- McLellan, David (1995). The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63948-0.
- Smith, Roger (1997). The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31733-1.
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.