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Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary

ISBN: 978-0-470-75611-9

January 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

424 pages

Description
In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.
About the Author
Robert J. Antonio is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. He has written widely on Marx, critical theory, and classical and contemporary social theory, and is the co-editor of A Weber–Marx Dialogue (with Ronald Glassman, 1985).
Features

  • Organizes Marx's writings thematically, presenting him as the father of modern capitalist social theory

  • Includes 15 contemporary essays reflecting the influence of Karl Marx on today's economy and society

  • Contains substantial editorial introductions by a well-known Marx scholar