How to Read Marx

by Peter Osborne

Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings.

Drawing on passages from a wide range of Marx's writings, and showing the links among them, Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic thinker. What Marx meant by "materialism," "communism," and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393328783
• ISBN13: 9780393328783
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"