Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
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. Bibliographic informationFirst edition published in London and New York:
These editions were republished several times,[3] in different forms, also as an e-book (after the MacMillan 1973 edition).[4] In 1995 a republication appeared under a different name:
In 1975 McLellan also wrote a much more condensed biography of Karl Marx, of 88 pages, with the simple title Marx. This work was reprinted many times (12 times between 1975 and 1988).[6] BackgroundThe first generally known and complete biography of Karl Marx was written by Franz Mehring, and published, first in German as Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Leben (Karl Marx: The Story of His Life) in 1918.[7] It would take fifty-five years, before the next really important biography of Marx was written. This was Karl Marx : His Life and Thoughts by McLellan (1973). "What Mehring's biography had been for the first half of the twentieth century — the standard thus far — McLellan’s was for the second half (and probably even today)."[8] Summary
McLellan deals with Marx's intellectual, political and private life.[9] ReceptionThe political theorist Terrell Carver described the book as, "The most comprehensive scholarly account of Marx's life and works".[10] The historian of science Roger Smith called it "readable and reliable".[11] References
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