Introducing Political Philosophy
- ISBN-10
- 1840464674
- ISBN-13
- 9781840464672
- Series
- Introducing Political Philosophy
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-08-01
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Authors
- Dave Robinson, Rupert Woodfin
Description
Provides an account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, its roots in 19th-century European ideology, and his radical economic and social criticism of capitalism that inspired 19th-century revolutions. Also examines the alternative Marxist approaches of Gramsci, the Frankfurt School of critical theory and the structuralist Marxism of Althusser in the 1960s.
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