The Cambridge Companion to Marx

Backed by current debate and new perspectives, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of his significant contributions.

Terrell Carver (Edited by)

9780521366250, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 November 1991

376 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.72 kg

"Its 13 chapters include some of the best Anglo-American authors on Karl Marx....the unimpeachable quality of individual chapters demonstrates the enduring value of Marx's text." Library Journal

Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension of this volume is to place Marx's writings in their historical context and to separate what he actually said from what others (in particular, Engels) interpreted him as saying. Informed by current debates and new perspectives, the volume provides a comprehensive coverage of all the major areas to which Marx made significant contributions.

List of contributors
Chronology
1. Reading Marx: life and works Terrell Carver
2. Critical reception: Marx then and now Paul Thomas
3. Social and political theory: class, state, revolution Richard W. Miller
4. Science: realism, criticism, history James Farr
5. History: critique and irony Terence Ball
6. Moral philosophy: the critique of capitalism and the problem of ideology Jeffrey Reiman
7. Political philosophy: Marx and radical democracy Alan Gilbert
8. Reproduction and the materialist conception of history: a feminist critique Susan Himmelweit
9. Gender: biology, nature, and capitalism Jeff Hearn
10. Aesthetics: liberating the senses William Adams
11. Logic: dialectic and contradiction Lawrence Wilde
12. History of philosophy: the metaphysics of substance in Marx Scott Meikle
13. Religion: illusions and liberation Denys Turner
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]