In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason to take Marx seriously. The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance: it was taken to be the fall of Marx as well as of Marxist politics and economics. This book argues that we can detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of future society, and that he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. It also shows that the value of the 'great thinkers' does not depend on their views being true, but on other features such as their originality, insight, and systematic vision. On this account too Marx still richly deserves to be read.
- ISBN10 0192803352
- ISBN13 9780192803351
- Publish Date 29 August 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 January 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English