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Books : The Portable Karl Marx (Viking Portable Library)In association with Amazon.comby: Karl Marx  List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $16.20 You Save: $1.80 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 335.4 EAN: 9780140150964 ISBN: 014015096X Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: March 31, 1983 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Sales Rank: 10900 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas. In addition to what you might expect to find in a collection like this (the text of "The Communist Manifesto", selections from "Das Kapital"), there are also tidbits from Marx's hand that help you truly understand the man and the history of his ideology, from his predictions on the fates of France and Russia, even down to his favorite color (red, of course) and his old report cards. No serious student of economic and political philosophy should be without an understanding of Karl Marx. This book provides it like no other. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fine IntroductionThere is little question that Marx was the most important economic/political theorist of the modern era. The question then, is how to present an overview of his thought in a single volume. This collection includes sections from Marx's earlier more philosophical period as a gradute student. It includes his dissertation on democritus and Epicurus as well as the famous essay 'On the Jewish Question.' Additionally, there is the great 'German Ideology,' 'Gundrisse,' and the ... Read More Rating: - good intro to Marx's thoughtIn addition to Marx's writings, this book consists of introductions to various sections of Marx's writings by Prof Kamenka, a chronology of events in Marx's life, letters and other documents by and about him and a glossary of Marxian terms. The writings can be tedious, windy full of run-on sentences, sometimes unreadable. I skipped some of them, including his speech "Value, price and profit," which Kamenka claims was a good laymen's introduction to the ideas of "Capital," but I gave it up after a ... Read More Rating:  - A rich, accessible introduction to Karl Marx"The Portable Karl Marx" is a splendid anthology of Marx' writings, political, philosophical and economic. The book also features a selection of Marx' personal letters, his university records and various private documents, including his birth certificate, all which help to illuminate the character of one of the prophets of the modern age. The compendium of extracts traces Marx' intellectual trajectory, from his early discipleship to the critical idealism of Hegel, onto his maturity, by which ... Read More Rating: - Students of philosophy, unite and buy this book!This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas. In addition to what you might expect to find in a collection like this (the text of The Communist Manifesto, selections from Das Kapital...), there are also tidbits from Marx's hand that help you truly understand the man and the history of his ideology, from his predictions on the fates ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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