The Communist Manifesto: With Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) [Paperback]

Karl Marx (Author), Frederick Engels (Author), John E. Toews (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0312157118 | ISBN-13: 978-0312157111 | Publication Date: February 28, 1999

Does the closing of the cold war era open up the possibility of reading the Communist Manifesto in new ways? In the first teaching edition of the post-Cold War era, Toews proposes new guidelines for reassessing the work to help students reconstruct the meaning of the Manifesto in its time and at the close of the twentieth century. Together with the complete text of the work, this brief volume includes some key foundational documents by Hegel, Feverbach, Marx, Engels, and others that show the evolution of and influences on Marxist theory over time. The editor's introduction traces the trajectory of Marx's thought from the 1830s onward, while providing background on the political, social, and intellectual contexts of which the Manifesto was a historical product.

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"This exciting new edition combines The Communist Manifesto with the key theoretical documents of its formation in a well-conceived and well-organized volume. Beyond that, it shines because Toews's introduction is so rich and original, and essay so 'adequate' to the force of the Manifesto itself and so engaged in the story of its intellectual genesis. Students of intellectual history will definitely benefit from this valuable collection."

About the Author

John E. Toews (Ph.D., Harvard University) is professor of history at the University of Washington and has also taught at Columbia University. He has published widely on the theory and practice of contemporary historiography, the history of psychoanalysis, and the development of historical consciousness in nineteenth-century German culture, including Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism (1981). He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize fellowship and is completing a book on the culture of historicism in Berlin during the 1840s.

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• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's (February 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312157118
• ISBN-13: 978-0312157111
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: The Communist Manifesto: With Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) (Paperback)

This is a great copy of the Communist Manifesto because, as with all of this particular Bedford Series, it provides lots of related documents to build context from. There is some text-book style background information, but most of the book is primary source documents that make it a really handy collection for anyone doing scholarly work. Fear not, whether you are trying to convert fellow commies or crush those revolutionary reds, this book will help you build your own case from scratch without having to wade through some author's opinion.