Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx: A Revolutionary Interpretation - Couverture rigide

Hook, Sidney; Hook, Ernest B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1573928828 ISBN 13 : 9781573928823

Editeur : Prometheus Books, 2002

Synopsis

Published in 1933, at a time of widespread unemployment and bank failures, this book by the young Sidney Hook received great critical acclaim and established his reputation as a brilliant expositor of ideas. By "revolutionary interpretation" Hook meant quite literally that Marx's main objective was to stimulate revolutionary opposition to class society.

Hook later abandoned the revolutionary views expressed in this volume, but he never abandoned his warm positive views of Marx as a thinker and a fighter for freedom. He eventually concluded that 20th century history had proved both him and Marx wrong about the necessity of revolutionary means to achieve their mutual social goals. But, says his son Ernest B. Hook in an introduction, this concession of error "he did not see . . . as an admission of intellectual weakness, but the natural position of a reasonable person when, in the light of observation and experience, he concludes he has erred."

This expanded edition makes readily available for scholars an influential work long out of print and provides critical insight into the intellectual development of one of the 20th-century's great thinkers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was professor emeritus at New York University and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Among his many books are Convictions; Paradoxes of Freedom; The Quest for Being; Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy; and an autobiography, Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prometheus Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573928828
• ISBN 13: 9781573928823
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 465
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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