An Introduction to Karl Marx,9780521338318

An Introduction to Karl Marx

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ISBN13: 9780521338318
ISBN10: 052133831X
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Pub. Date: 1986-07-25
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx’s social, political and economic thought for the beginning student. Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology; in a final chapter he assesses ‘what is living and what is dead in the philosophy of Marx’. The emphasis throughout is on the analytical structure of Marx’s arguments and the approach is at once sympathetic, undogmatic, and rigorous.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Overview
1(20)
Introduction
1(4)
Marx: Life and Writings
5(6)
Marx and Engels
11(1)
Marxism after Marx
12(5)
Editions of Marx's Writings
17(2)
Bibliography
19(2)
Marxist Methodology
21(20)
Introduction
21(1)
Methodological Individualism
22(3)
Marxism and Rational Choice
25(6)
Functional Explanation in Marxism
31(3)
Dialectics
34(5)
Bibliography
39(2)
Alienation
41(19)
Introduction
41(2)
Alienation: Lack of Self-realization
43(6)
Alienation: Lack of Autonomy
49(5)
Alienation: The Rule of Capital over Labor
54(2)
Fetishism
56(2)
Bibliography
58(2)
Marxian Economics
60(19)
Introduction
60(3)
The Labor Theory of Value
63(7)
Reproduction, Accumulation, and Technical Change
70(4)
Crisis Theory
74(4)
Bibliography
78(1)
Exploitation
79(24)
Introduction
79(2)
Exploitation, Freedom, and Force
81(3)
Exploitation in History
84(8)
Exploitation and Justice
92(9)
Bibliography
101(2)
Historical Materialism
103(19)
Introduction
103(2)
The Development of the Productive Forces
105(7)
Base and Superstructure
112(5)
The Stages of Historical Development
117(4)
Bibliography
121(1)
Class Consciousness and Class Struggle
122(19)
Introduction
122(1)
The Concept of Class
123(6)
Class Consciousness
129(5)
Class Struggle
134(5)
Bibliography
139(2)
Marx's Theory of Politics
141(27)
Introduction
141(2)
The Capitalist State
143(10)
Politics in the Transition to Capitalism
153(6)
Politics in the Transition to Communism
159(7)
Bibliography
166(2)
The Marxist Critique of Ideology
168(18)
Introduction
168(5)
Political Ideologies
173(3)
Economic Thought as Ideology
176(4)
Religion as Ideology
180(4)
Bibliography
184(2)
What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Marx?
186(1)
Introduction
186(2)
What Is Dead?
188(6)
What Is Living?
194

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