On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin

by Michael Löwy

Book Overview

This collection of lively and insightful essays--including several translated into English for the first time--covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature. L wy offers a unique exploration of the role of romanticism as one of the key sources of the Marxist critique of capitalist civilization. And he shows how Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, and Walter Benjamin all share an understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608461890
• ISBN13: 9781608461899
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"