The Great Philosophers: Marx
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- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2021
Summary
Marx: Freedom and the Fruits of Labour
‘We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity’ Karl Marx
For Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx’s thinking. Marx’s utopia was a place in which labour is increasingly automated, emancipating the wealth of sensuous individual dev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474616744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474616747 |
| Author: | Terry Eagleton |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 60g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 110mm x 14mm |
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The virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing - EVENING STANDARD
Eagleton is a compelling writer and raconteur - POPMATTERSA promising venture - THE TIMESRarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap - FINANCIAL TIMESThe books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance - TESAbout The Author
Terry Eagleton
Acclaimed literary scholar and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. Eagleton is the author of many books including The Idea of Culture, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic, the bestselling text Literary Theory: An Introduction, Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics and Why Marx Was Right.
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