Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas

by John Torrance

Book Overview

Karl Marx's writings contain, besides economic analysis and the political theory of revolutionary communism, an influential sociology of ideas, explaining how social life shapes and distorts people's ideas and beliefs. This book presents a fresh critical study of this theory, establishing what Marx did and did not say, and distinguishing the more scientific parts of his thought from those that were overly influenced by his revolutionary aims. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521066727
• ISBN13: 9780521066723
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"