{"product_id":"karl-marx-by-isaiah-berlin-9780691156507","title":"Karl Marx","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of \u003cem\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/em\u003e has long been recognised as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more \"direct, deliberate, and powerful\" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas, sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin takes readers through Marx's years of adolescent rebellion and post-university communist agitation, the personal high point of the 1848 revolutions, and his later years of exile, political frustration, and intellectual effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCritical yet sympathetic, Berlin's account illuminates a life without reproducing a legend. New features of this thoroughly revised edition include references for Berlin's quotations and allusions, Terrell Carver's assessment of the distinctiveness of Berlin's book, and a revised guide to further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000659886316,"sku":"9780691156507","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/544384037df5fb9204ab8de105cc9da4.jpg?v=1773004818","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/karl-marx-by-isaiah-berlin-9780691156507","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}