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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal ...

The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal ...

Leo Marx

For more than 40 years, Marx's work focused on technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. This edition celebrates the anniversary of Marx's classic text, and features a new Afterword on the process of writing the book.
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal ...

The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal ...

Leo Marx

This new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text.
Marx on Suicide

Marx on Suicide

Karl Marx

Sociologist Kevin Anderson provides an extensive introduction situating the essay in the context of Marx's work, especially that on gender; Plaut's essay focuses on the psychological aspects of the work, in particular contrasting Marx's ...
Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Karl Marx

This edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's most important pieces alongside a fully revised and updated bibliography and editorial commentary on ...
Karl Marx: A Reader

Karl Marx: A Reader

Karl Marx

A selection of Karl Marx's most important writings are contained in this volume. It was designed as a companion to Elster's "An introduction to Karl Marx" but may be used alone.
Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners

Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners

Michael Wayne

At the same time, understanding 'Das Kapital' is crucial for mastering Marx's insights to capitalism. Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners offers an accessible path through Marx's arguments and his key questions: What is commodity?
Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge

Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge

Patrick Murray

Through a close reading of Marx's few writings on method and a careful analysis of the opening chapters of Capital, this book exposes this demanding quality of Marx's texts and helps in meeting those demands.
Marx's Theories Today

Marx's Theories Today

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Vol 60.pp 335-365 Paul Kamolnick VISIONS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MARX: AN ASSESSMENT OF RECENT DEBATES IN NORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY Introduction Marx's objective was unambiguous: To overthrow capitalism because it was ...
Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique

Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique

Daniel Bensaïd

Published in France on the eve of the strikes of 1995 that signalled a profound revolt against la pensee unique, Marx for Our Times is an invitation to rediscover our foremost contemporary, Karl Marx.
Karl Marx and the Anarchists

Karl Marx and the Anarchists

Paul Thomas

Karl Marx and the Anarchists examines Marx's disputes with the anarchist theoreticians he encountered at various stages of his career as a revolutionist.
Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

William Clare Roberts

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic.
How To Read Marx

How To Read Marx

Peter Osborne

Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings.
The Philosophy of Marx

The Philosophy of Marx

Etienne Balibar

In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand.
Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin

Norman Levine

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin, by negating the Leninist-Stalinist theory of dialectical materialism and tracing Marx's political philosophy to the Classical Humanism of Aristotle, overthrows the stultifying entrapment of Stalinist ...
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

Wayne Koestenbaum

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx’s physical movements as captured on screen.
The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form

The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form

Patrick Murray

The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray’s essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since his Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988), along with a previously unpublished essay ...
Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by ...

Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by ...

Karl Marx

This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change.
Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and ...

Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and ...

Christian Fuchs

This book is a comprehensive guide to Marx's most important and groundbreaking work.
The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx

The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx

Michael Löwy

The ideas of Marx's early writings come alive in this important examination of their lasting relevance.
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium

Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium

Leo Strauss

The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than thirty years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did.
Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books

Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck

(From Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni. Knopf, 1997, pp. 12-13 ) In fact, Leo Lionni's bedroom itself might have been the birthplace. In cages and containers across the room lived snails, caterpillars, fish, frogs, and mice that ...
Shakespeare and Marx

Shakespeare and Marx

Gabriel Egan

This book explores the past and continuing influence of Marx's ideas in work on Shakespeare.
Homos

Homos

Leo Bersani

Reviews of this book: "Perhaps no one since Leo Bersani in 'Is the Rectum a Grave?' has written so convincingly against the danger of homosexual assimilation as Leo Bersani in Homos.
Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (why Marx Rejected Politics ...

Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (why Marx Rejected Politics ...

Allan Megill

It will be of interest both to those who wish to reflect on the fate of Marxism during the era of Soviet Communism, and to those who wish to discern what is adequate and what requires replacement or supplementation in the work of a figure ...
Good Night, Leo: A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure

Good Night, Leo: A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure

Charise Mericle Harper

IT’S TIME FOR BED, and Leo must get out of his pirate costume and into his pjs, and as he removes each item of clothing, Leo fondly says good night. (“Good night, green bandana .
Truth in History

Truth in History

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i Ann Douglas, Feminization of American Culture (New York, 1977), 6; Leo Marx, Machine in the Garden (New York, 1964) . 2 Oscar Handlin, "Man and Magic: First Encounters with the Machine," American Scholar, XXXIII (Summer 1964) , 408 ...
Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, Economic and ...

Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, Economic and ...

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This book shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx's theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a 'pure' economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a political aspect, neither ...
The Communist Manifesto: With Related Documents

The Communist Manifesto: With Related Documents

Karl Marx

In this edition of Marx and Engels's classic text, Toews proposes new guidelines for reassessing the work to help students reconstruct the meaning of the Manifesto in its time and at the close of the twentieth century.
A Guide to Marx’s ‘Capital’ Vols I–III:

A Guide to Marx’s ‘Capital’ Vols I–III:

Kenneth Smith

This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.

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