Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

Cover of the 1959 edition
Author Isaiah Berlin
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Karl Marx
Published 1939 (Thornton Butterworth)
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 222 (1995 edition)
ISBN 978-0195103267

Karl Marx: His Life and Environment is a 1939 biography of Karl Marx by the historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin,[1] in which the author argues that Marx's system of thought depends upon indefensible metaphysical presuppositions.[2]

Scholarly reception

The historian Peter Gay wrote that Karl Marx: His Life and Environment is one of the best discussions of alienation in the literature on Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and among such accounts, distinguished by its lucidity.[3] Berlin's style of writing has been praised by the political scientist David McLellan,[1] and the philosopher John Gray.[2]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 McLellan 1995. p. 441.
  2. 1 2 Gray 1995. p. 91.
  3. ↑ Gay 1986. p. 458.

Bibliography

  • Gay, Peter (1986). The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud. Volume II: The Tender Passion. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503741-3. 
  • Gray, John (1995). Berlin. London: FontanaPress. ISBN 0-00-686244-6. 
  • McLellan, David (1995). Karl Marx: A Biography. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63947-2. 


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