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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      January 1977
      ISBN:
      9780511611902
      9780521290838
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611902
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 360 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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    Subjects:
    Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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    In this book, the most thorough account of Marx's theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book further contains a detailed examination of Marx's philosophy of internal relations, the much neglected logical foudation of his method, and provides a systematic account of Marx's conception of human nature. Because of its almost unique concern with helping readers understand Marx's unusual use of language, Alienation has proven very popular in university courses on Marxism on both undergraduate and graduate levels. The first edition was widely reviewed, and in this new edition Professor Ollman replies to his critics in 'More on internal relations,' published here as Appendix II. In addition to this new appendix the author now provides a more systematic discussion of Marx's theory of ideology, elements of which were formerly dispersed throughout the book. He also attempts to set the treatment of political alienation within the broader framework of Marx's theory of the state as a model of how an approach based on internal relations can be used to integrate various apparently contradictory interpretations of Marx's views.

    Reviews

    ‘ … a remarkable book … Ollman has discovered a kind of Ariadne’s thread through the maze of Marxian linguistic problems … brilliant and illuminating.’

    Source: New York Review of Books

    ‘Ollman’s book distinguishes itself from the rest by virtue of its scholarly concentration, readability, sobriety and above all relevance to issues which are central, not only to an understanding of marx, but also (even more importantly) to an understanding of the complex world which Marx himself endeavored to comprehend and describe.’

    Source: Political Studies

    ‘ … as authoritative and comprehensive a study as any I have read. But the striking originality of the book lies in its method, in the preliminary alanysis which Ollman undertakes to study Marx’s ‘peculiar’ use of terms.’

    Source: Science and Society

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