Karl Marx : His Life and Thought is a 1973 biography of Karl Marx by the political scientist David McLellan. The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995.
Bibliographic information
First edition published in London and New York:
- McLellan, David (1973a). Karl Marx: His Life and Thoughts. London etc.: MacMillan Press.[1]
- McLellan, David (1973b). Karl Marx: His Life and Thoughts. New York etc.: Harper & Row.[2]
These editions were republished several times,[3] in different forms, also as an e-book (after the MacMillan 1973 edition).[4]
In 1995 a republication appeared under a different name:
- McLellan, David (1995). Karl Marx : A Biography. London etc.: Papermac.[5]
In 1975 McLellan also wrote a much more condensed biography of Karl Marx, of 88 pages, with the simple title Marx. This work was reprinted many times (12 times between 1975 and 1988).[6]
Background
The first generally known and complete biography of Karl Marx was written by Franz Mehring, and published, first in German as Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Leben (Karl Marx: The Story of His Life) in 1918.[7]
It would take fifty-five years, before the next really important biography of Marx was written. This was Karl Marx : His Life and Thoughts by McLellan (1973). "What Mehring's biography had been for the first half of the twentieth century — the standard thus far — McLellan’s was for the second half (and probably even today)."[8]
Summary
McLellan deals with Marx's intellectual, political and private life.[9]
Reception
The political theorist Terrell Carver described the book as, "The most comprehensive scholarly account of Marx's life and works".[10] The historian of science Roger Smith called it "readable and reliable".[11]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780333445419; preview of McLellan 1973 in Google Books.
- ^ McLellan 1973 (New York): OL 5412899M. See also: a second copy, available for borrow at Internet Archive.
- ^ For an overview of some of the published editions, also in other languages than English, see:
- ^ E-book freely available at Springer.
- ^ McLellan 1995: First pages available via archive.org.
- ^ McLellan, David (1975). Marx. [London]: Fontana.
- ^ McLellan 1973a, p. xi.
- ^ Segrillo 2019, p. 10.
- ^ McLellan 1995a, p. 269-270, 438-447.
- ^ Carver 1995. p. 211.
- ^ Smith 1997, p. 954.
Bibliography
- Berlin, Isaiah; Ryan, Alan; Carver, Terrell (1995). Karl Marx: His Life and Environment. London: Fontana Press. ISBN 0-00-686339-6.
- McLellan, David (1995a). The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63948-0.
- Segrillo, Angelo (March 2019). "Two Centuries of Karl Marx Biographies: An Overview" (PDF). LEA Working Paper Series. 4.
- Smith, Roger (1997). The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31733-1.
See also
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