Karl Marx: His Life and Thought

Karl Marx: His Life and Thought

Cover of the first edition
Author David McLellan
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Karl Marx
Published 1973 (Macmillan)
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 464 (1995 edition)
ISBN 978-0333445419

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" by professor of political theory Terrell Carver.[2] Historian of science Roger Smith calls it "readable and reliable".[3]

References

Footnotes

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. 
  • Smith, Roger (1997). The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31733-1. 
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