The Ideas of Karl Marx

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

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   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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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.

• young marx
• Marxism
• critical theory
• Hegel
• Liberalism
• Capitalism
• Philosophy
• revolution
• citizen
• materialism
• communism
• historical materialism
• class struggle
• communist manifesto
• political economy
• labor
• alienation
• First International
• Grundrisse
• Capital

• Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Stefano Petrucciani

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).

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