On Marx - Revolutionary and Utopian

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marx's writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and providing a sterling explication and critique of his theories of alienation, class struggle and revolution. This volume provides the clearest, most accessible introduction to Marx's theories in recent years.
On Marx features a chronology, biography and excerpts from Marx's major works.

About the author

Alan Ryan, after decades at Princeton University, was warden of New College, University of Oxford, where he was a professor of political theory. He is the author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, among other works.

Summary

Both a lucid introduction and a subtle demolition of the philosopher whose theories were treated as near-divine by those who followed him.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Ryan, Alan Ryan, Alan (Princeton University) Ryan
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.09.2015
• EAN: 9781631490606
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-060-6
• Series: Liveright; Liveright Classics; Liveright; Liveright Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism