Karl Marx: A Reader
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1986-08-29
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521338328
ISBN-13: 9780521338325
This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx’s most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology. Jon Elster provides a brief introduction to each selection to explain its context and its place in Marx’s argument. The volume is designed as a companion to Elster’s An Introduction to Karl Marx and the thematic structure of each book is the same. But the Reader can also stand on its own and offers the student a substantial and revealingly organized selec...