Product Description

This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #261329 in Books
• Published on: 1987-01-01
• Format: Student Edition
• Original language: German
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

Customer Reviews

Ideal Student Edition
It's flagged as a 'student edition', and as such it's ideal. The entire original book, after all, runs to 700 pages in some editions, and most of that comprises detailed critiques of several 'young Hegelians'. These figures aren't of much interest any more.
Here, though, Christopher J. Arthur has done an excellent job of selecting the essential and most interesting parts of the book (together with a couple of smaller, related but important texts). So unless you're a paid-up full-time scholar of either Marxism or the young Hegelians, this is the edition you need.

Abridged!
'The German Ideology' is one of the key texts for understanding the evolution of Marx's thought during the 1840s. It is a difficult work which balances theoretical discussion with some of the most barbed critical satire that Marx ever penned, and some knowledge of the work of the 'right' Hegelians is really helpful in following Marx's often complex reasoning.
In spite of these challenges, 'The German Ideology' is a vital and passionate book that does not deserve the heavy-handed abridgement of this edition. You would do much better to read the whole text in another edition (and you would save money as well)!