Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
by Kolakowski, Leszek
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NY: Norton, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.5". 1284 indexed pages. First printing. Gold boards. Cream cloth spine w/gilt letters. Jacket design by Kapo NG.@A-men project. Jacket photo courtesy of the John W. Kluge Center. Translated from the Polish by P.S. Falla. The Classic Text Now in One volume. Preface and Epilogue by author. Bibliography. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. The commanding study of Marxism, now in one masterful volume with a new preface and epilogue by the author.
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly influential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this "prophetic work" presents, according to the Library of Congress, "the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the twentieth century." Kolakowski traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotonius through Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre, and Mao. He reveals Marxism to be "the greatest fantasy of our century...an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism." In a brilliant coda, he examines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous decades. Main Currents of Marxism remains the indispensable book in its field.
Source: Publisher Winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly influential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this "prophetic work" presents, according to the Library of Congress, "the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the twentieth century." Kolakowski traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotonius through Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre, and Mao. He reveals Marxism to be "the greatest fantasy of our century...an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism." In a brilliant coda, he examines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous decades. Main Currents of Marxism remains the indispensable book in its field.
Source: Publisher Winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
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- Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
- Author
- Kolakowski, Leszek
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- Hardcover_cloth spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393060543
- ISBN 13
- 9780393060546
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- Norton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2005
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