Marx : a very short introduction

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Title:

Marx : a very short introduction

Author:

Singer, Peter, 1946- author.

Series:

Very short introductions ;

Series Number:

28.

Summary:

Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Presenting Marx as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist, Singer explains Marx's key ideas on alienation, historical materialism, and the economic theory of Capital, in plain English. -- Amazon.

General Note:

"First published 1980 as an Oxford University Press paperback; reissued 1996; first published as a Very Short Introduction 2000"--Title page verso

Edition:

Second edition, Fully updated new edition.

Contents:

A life and its legacy -- The young Hegelian -- From God to money -- Enter the proletariat -- The first Marxism -- The development of the materialist theory of history -- The goal of history -- Economics -- Communism and revolution -- Was Marx right? -- Is Marx still relevant?

Physical Description:

xxii, 130 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal Subject:

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Subject Term:

Communists -- Biography.

Communism -- History.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,