Karl Marx : : Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition / / Isaiah Berlin; ed. by Henry Hardy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Berlin, Isaiah,
• MitwirkendeR: Carver, Terrell,; Matthews, Douglas,; Ryan, Alan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Carver, Terrell.; Ryan, Alan.
• HerausgeberIn: Hardy, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 3 line illus.

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality. Berlin takes readers through Marx's years of adolescent rebellion and post-university communist agitation, the personal high point of the 1848 revolutions, and his later years of exile, political frustration, and intellectual effort. Critical yet sympathetic, Berlin's account illuminates a life without reproducing a legend. New features of this thoroughly revised edition include references for Berlin's "ations and allusions, Terrell Carver's assessment of the distinctiveness of Berlin's book, and a revised guide to further reading.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface to the Fifth Edition -- Foreword -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Note to the Third Edition -- Note to the First Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Childhood and Adolescence -- 3. The Philosophy of 'The Spirit' -- 4. The Young Hegelians -- 5. Paris -- 6. Historical Materialism -- 7. 1848 -- 8. Exile in London: The First Phase -- 9. The International -- 10. 'The Red Terror Doctor' -- 11. Last Years -- Afterword -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index