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An Introduction to Karl Marx
Author(s): Elster (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 12 Jan. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 052133831X
- ISBN-13: 9780521338318
Book Description
A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought for the beginning student. Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology; in a final chapter he assesses 'what is living and what is dead in the philosophy of Marx'. The emphasis throughout is on the analytical structure of Marx's arguments and the approach is at once sympathetic, undogmatic, and rigorous.
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Book Description
A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought.
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A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx's social, political, and economic thought for the beginning student. The author surveys in turn each of the main themes of Marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology; in a final chapter he assesses 'what is living and what is dead in the philosophy of Marx.'
