Karl Marx: His Life and Thought

Karl Marx: His Life and Thought

The 1973 edition
Author David McLellan
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Biography
Published 1973 (Macmillan)
Media type Print
Pages 464 (1995 edition)
ISBN 0-333-63947-2 (1995 edition)

Karl Marx: His Life and Thought is a 1973 biography of Karl Marx by political scientist David McLellan. The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995.

Summary

McLellan deals with Marx's intellectual, political and private life. The 1995 edition includes a critical bibliography that briefly evaluates numerous works dealing with Marx and Marxism, among them Isaiah Berlin's Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939), Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution (1941), and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism (1976).[1]

Scholarly reception

The book has been described as, "The most comprehensive scholarly account of Marx's life and works."[2]

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ McLellan 1995. pp. 269-270, 438-447.
  2. ↑ Carver 1995. p. 211.

Bibliography

  • Berlin, Isaiah; Ryan, Alan; Carver, Terrell (1995). Karl Marx: His Life and Environment. London: Fontana Press. ISBN 0-00-686339-6.
  • McLellan, David (1995). The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63948-0.