Cover of the first edition
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Author | David McLellan |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Karl Marx |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishers |
Publication date
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1973 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 464 (1995 edition) |
ISBN |
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought is a 1973 biography of Karl Marx by the political scientist David McLellan. The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995.
McLellan deals with Marx's intellectual, political and private life. The 1995 edition includes a critical bibliography that briefly evaluates numerous works dealing with Marx and Marxism, among them Isaiah Berlin's Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939), Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution (1941), and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism (1976).
The book has been described as, "The most comprehensive scholarly account of Marx's life and works" by the professor of political theory Terrell Carver. The historian of science Roger Smith called it "readable and reliable".