This book is brilliant incisive honest and deserves to be read withattention. It is an important event in the Marxist theoretical production. Politique HebdoA r... » 

This book is brilliant incisive honest and deserves to be read withattention. It is an important event in the Marxist theoretical production. Politique HebdoA remarkable essay whose merit is not only theoretical but also historicalbecause it examines unknown aspects of the evolution of young Marxsthinking.PolitisIn the 1840s the young German journalist Karl Marx developed ideas aboutmodern society that remain as relevant today as when they were first developed.Here LAwy shows the lasting force of Marxs early writings on alienation andemancipation.Michael LAwy is research director in sociology at the Centre National de laRecherchAc Scientifique Paris. He is the author of many books includingRomanticism Against the Tide of Modernity. «