An Introduction to Karl Marx

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An Introduction to Karl Marx
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Cover of the first edition
Author Jon Elster
LanguageEnglish
Subject Karl Marx
Published1986
Media typePrint (hardcover  · paperback)
Pages212
ISBN 978-0521338318

An Introduction to Karl Marx is a 1986 book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the social and political theorist Jon Elster. It is a much shorter version (about one-fourth in length) of Elster's Making Sense of Marx , published a year earlier.

Contents

Elster also edited a companion volume of selected writings by Marx, organizing along thematic lines corresponding to the book's chapters 2–9, on the topics of Marxian methodology, alienation, Marxian economics, exploitation, historical materialism, class consciousness and class struggle, Marx's theory of politics, and the Marxist critique of ideology.

Reception

The political scientist David McLellan praised the work for its rigor and accessibility. [1]

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