A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic work - both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader - one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.
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A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics
"A finely tuned style of analysis and judgment." - The Guardian "One could not hope for a better guide for the arduous journey still to come." - Mediations
A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics
This new set of Verso’s acclaimed Radical Thinkers series commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx with classic texts on Marx’s thought.

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ISBN
9781788732437
Publisert
2018-04-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
228 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

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Biographical note

Göran Therborn is the Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also the former co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Uppsala. He has worked in, and on, all the populated continents of the world. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages. He is also a civic intellectual, with a lifetime commitment to universal freedom and equality, a supporter of anti-imperialist and egalitarian social movements, and writes on Marxist and Radical theory. Since his retirement from Cambridge in 2010 he lives at Ljungbyholm, in southeast Sweden.