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The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important study of Marx's
early writings. These writings provide the fascinating spectacle of
a powerful and imaginative intellect wrestling with complex and
significant issues, but they also present formidable interpretative
obstacles to modern readers. David Leopold shows how an
understanding of their intellectual and cultural context can
illuminate the political dimension of these works. An erudite yet
accessible discussion of Marx's influences and targets frames the
author's critical engagement with Marx's account of the emergence,
character, and (future) replacement of the modern state. This
combination of historical and analytical approaches results in a
sympathetic, but not uncritical, exploration of such fundamental
themes as alienation, citizenship, community, anti-semitism, and
utopianism. The Young Karl Marx is a scholarly and original work
which provides a radical and persuasive reinterpretation of Marx's
complex and often misunderstood views of German philosophy, modern
politics, and human flourishing.
The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important study of Marx's
early writings. These writings provide the fascinating spectacle of
a powerful and imaginative intellect wrestling with complex and
significant issues, but they also present formidable interpretative
obstacles to modern readers. David Leopold shows how an
understanding of their intellectual and cultural context can
illuminate the political dimension of these works. An erudite yet
accessible discussion of Marx's influences and targets frames the
author's critical engagement with Marx's account of the emergence,
character, and (future) replacement of the modern state. This
combination of historical and analytical approaches results in a
sympathetic, but not uncritical, exploration of such fundamental
themes as alienation, citizenship, community, anti-semitism, and
utopianism. The Young Karl Marx is a scholarly and original work
which provides a radical and persuasive reinterpretation of Marx's
complex and often misunderstood views of German philosophy, modern
politics, and human flourishing.
Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in
both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner's
distinctive and powerful polemic sounded the death-knell of left
Hegelianism, with its attack on Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno and Edgar
Bauer, Moses Hess and others. It also constitutes an enduring
critique of both liberalism and socialism from the perspective of
an extreme eccentric individualism. Karl Marx was only one of many
contemporaries provoked into a lengthy rebuttal of Stirner's
argument. Stirner has been portrayed, variously, as a precursor of
Nietzsche (both stylistically and substantively), a forerunner of
existentialism and as an individualist anarchist. This edition of
his work comprises a revised version of Steven Byington's much
praised translation, together with an introduction and notes on the
historical background to Stirner's text.
Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Stirner has latterly been portrayed variously as a precursor of Nietzsche, a forerunner of existentialism, an individualist anarchist, and as manifestly insane. This edition includes an Introduction placing Stirner in his historical context.
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News from Nowhere (Paperback)
William Morris; Edited by David Leopold
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News from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William
Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since
Thomas More's. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor
from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and
humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary
upheaval in 1952, these "Chapters from a Utopian Romance" recount
his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor,
Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire. Drawing on the work of
John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morris's book is not only an evocative
statement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive
contribution to the utopian tradition. Morris's rejection of state
socialism and his ambition to transform the relationship between
humankind and the natural world, give News from Nowhere a
particular resonance for modern readers. This text is based on the
1891 version, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris
to the first edition.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Political theorists are too often silent on questions of method and
approach. David Leopold and Marc Stears have assembled a
distinguished group of contributors to break that silence and to
explain and defend the research methods they utilise in their own
work. The result is a rich and varied collection which does not
suggest that there is only one right way to conduct political
theory, but rather introduces readers to many of the often
unelaborated methods and approaches that currently inform the work
of leading scholars in the field. Amongst the topics covered are
the complex and contested connections between political theory and
a range of adjacent disciplines - including moral philosophy, the
empirical social sciences, the history of political thought, the
world of 'real' politics, critical social theory, and ideology.
Both individually and as a collection, these essays will promote
understanding and provoke further debate amongst students and
established scholars alike. They will be encouraged to reflect on
their own methodological assumptions, to re-examine the practical
tools of analysis they employ, and to re-evaluate why the research
they do matters.
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