Cover of the 1959 edition
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Author | Isaiah Berlin |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Karl Marx |
Published | 1939 (Thornton Butterworth) |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 222 (1995 edition) |
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Karl Marx: His Life and Environment is a 1939 biography of Karl Marx by Isaiah Berlin, in which Berlin argues that Marx's system of thought depends upon indefensible metaphysical presuppositions.
Historian Peter Gay wrote that Karl Marx: His Life and Environment is one of the best discussions of alienation in the literature on Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and among such accounts, distinguished by its lucidity. Berlin's style of writing has been praised by political scientist David McLellan, and philosopher John Gray.