How to Read Marx

by Peter Osborne

Book Overview

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 upon passages from a wide range of Marx's writings, and showing the links between them, Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic thinker. What Marx meant by 'materialism', 'communism' and the 'critique...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862077711
• ISBN13: 9781862077713
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"