Marx's Theory of Alienation (book)

Marx's Theory of Alienation

Cover of the first edition
Author István Mészáros
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Karl Marx
Published 1970 (Merlin Press)
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 356
ISBN 978-0850365542

Marx's Theory of Alienation is a 1970 book about Karl Marx by philosopher István Mészáros. The work has received a mixture of praise and criticism from scholars.

Scholarly reception

Political scientist David McLellan writes that Marx's Theory of Alienation provides a good account of the continuity in Marx's thought, although he also finds it to be obscurely written and awkwardly constructed.[1]

The work has been criticized by Norman Geras in Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend (1983). Geras finds Mészáros's work to be one example of the way in which Marxists have illogically denied that there is such a thing as human nature even while engaging in analysis of Marx that depends on the concept of a human nature.[2]

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ McLellan 1995. pp. 270.
  2. ↑ Geras 1983. pp. 53-54.

Bibliography

Books
  • Geras, Norman (1983). Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend. London: Verso Editions. ISBN 0 86091 767 3. 
  • McLellan, David (1995). The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63948-0. 


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