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Cambridge University Press (1968), Edition: 1st, 280 pages
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Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the 'older' Marx, who was held to be a determinist with little concern for anything outside his narrow theory of historical materialism. Dr Avineri claims that such a gap between the 'young' and 'older' Marx did not exist. He supports his claim by a detailed study of the whole corpus of Marx's writing on social and political thought.
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LibraryThing member lukeasrodgers
An excellent, systematic overview and reconstruction of Marx's work. Avineri does much to dispel many over-simplifications and mischaracterizations of Marx's thought. The book suffers occasionally from an overly polemicist bent which, I believe, leads Avineri to a somewhat-too-easy acceptance of
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Marx's distorted view/criticisms of Hegel, and also of an overly charitable account of Marx in the Marx vs. Weber debate. Show Less
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English
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280 p.; 6.02 inches
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9780521096195
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