Throughout his life Karl Marx commented on the French Revolution, but never was able to realize his project of a systematic work on this immense event. This book assembles for the first time all that Marx wrote on this subject. Fran�ois Furet provides an extended discussion of Marx's thinking on the revolution, and Lucien Calvi� situates each of the selections, drawn from existing translations as well as previously untranslated material, in its larger historical context. With his early critique of Hegel, Marx started ...
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Throughout his life Karl Marx commented on the French Revolution, but never was able to realize his project of a systematic work on this immense event. This book assembles for the first time all that Marx wrote on this subject. Fran�ois Furet provides an extended discussion of Marx's thinking on the revolution, and Lucien Calvi� situates each of the selections, drawn from existing translations as well as previously untranslated material, in its larger historical context. With his early critique of Hegel, Marx started moving toward his fundamental thesis: that the state is a product of civil society and that the French Revolution was the triumph of bourgeois society. Furet's interpretation follows the evolution of this idea and examines the dilemmas it created for Marx as he considered all the faces the new state assumed over the course of the Revolution: the Jacobin Terror following the constitutional monarchy, Bonaparte's dictatorship following the parliamentary republic. The problem of reconciling his theory with the reality of the Revolution's various manifestations is one of the major difficulties Marx contended with throughout his work. The hesitation, the remorse, and the contradictions of the resulting analyses offer a glimpse of a great thinker struggling with the constraints of his own system. Marx never did elaborate a theory of an autonomous state, but he never stopped wrestling with the challenge to his doctrine posed by late eighteenth-century France, whose changing conditions and successive regimes prompted some of his most intriguing and, until now, unexplored thought.
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VG-/VG-(ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, block, front and rear end pages and title page verso. Book is otherwise clear and clean, binding tight. ) Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xi, 239 pp. English translation of: Marx et la Révolution française, published Flammarion, 1986. Includes selections from Karl Marx edited and introduced by Lucien Calvie.
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FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. xi, 239 pp. 8vo, navy finished cloth, gilt spine lettering, includes selections from Karl Marx. A pristine copy. A very small tear to DJ repaired with tape, crisp and bright otherwise.
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Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good hardcover in very good, lightly worn dust jacket. First Edition. Neatly drawn brackets in margins, many pages. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Binding tight.
