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The Ideas of Karl Marx

A Critical Introduction

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Authors:
  1. Stefano Petrucciani

    1. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  • Offers a comprehensive presentation of the key themes in Marx's thought
  • Provides a biographical narrative of the successive phases of Marx's intellectual and political life
  • Erudite, yet accessible for student use particularly in masters courses on Marx and Marxism

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Education of a Young Hegelian

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Critique of Liberalism

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 27-53

  4. The Discovery of Economics

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 55-79

  5. A New Conception of History

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 81-110

  6. A Time for Revolution: Marx and 1848

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 111-143

  7. The Critique of Political Economy

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 145-189

  8. The International, the Paris Commune, Social Democracy

    • Stefano Petrucciani
    Pages 191-205

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 207-222
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About this book

This book offers a complete presentation of the most important themes of Marx’s thought, following the development of Marx’s theory from the beginning to his death and offering a reconstruction and analysis that covers the whole of Marx’s life and works. Each chapter presents one of the central topics of Marx’s reflection: the confrontation with the Hegelian theory of the State (1843); the critique of political liberalism in the “On the Jewish Question”; the discovery of Political Economy in the Manuscripts of 1844; the new theory of history developed in The German Ideology; the political theory and the revolution of 1848; the critique of political economy from the Grundrisse to Capital; and the political thought of the last Marx (the Paris Commune and the critique of the German Social Democratic Party).
Stefano Petrucciani is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Stefano Petrucciani

About the author

Stefano Petrucciani is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. His previous books include: Introduzione a Habermas (2000), Introduzione a Adorno (2007), Modelli di filosofia politica (2003), Marx (2009), Democrazia (2014), Storia del marxismo (2015), and Marx critique du libéralisme (2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ideas of Karl Marx

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Introduction

  • Authors: Stefano Petrucciani

  • Translated by: Guido Parietti

  • Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52351-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52350-3Published: 11 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52353-4Published: 12 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52351-0Published: 10 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2524-7123

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology

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