{"product_id":"how-to-read-marx-9780393328783","title":"How to Read Marx","description":"Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on passages from a wide range of Marx's writings, and showing the links among them, Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic thinker. What Marx meant by \"materialism,\" \"communism,\" and the \"critique of political economy\" was much richer and more original, philosophically, than is generally recognized. With the renewed globalization of capitalism since 1989, Osborne argues, Marx's analyses of the consequences of commodification are more relevant today than ever before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Extracts are taken from the full breadth of Marx's writings, including \u003cem\u003eNotebooks on Epicurean Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritchley, Simon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Simon Critchley is a best-selling author and the Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little...Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, Bowie, Memory Theatre and Suicide.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOsborne, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Osborne\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and founding Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), now at Kingston University London. He is a long-serving member of the editorial collective of the UK journal \u003cem\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e. His books include \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy in Cultural Theory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConceptual Art and Marx\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritchley, Simon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSimon Critchley\u003c\/strong\u003e is a best-selling author and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Dead Philosophers, Bowie\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTragedy, the Greeks, and Us\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410982506770,"sku":"9780393328783","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91105133-577e-415a-b2fe-b9743797f43e.jpg?v=1729309651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-read-marx-9780393328783","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}