Books like The Marx-Engels reader by Karl Marx

First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of modern Communism has long been considered the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. It provides a penetrating, lucid and comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism. In turn, Berlin presents an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the nineteenth century and brilliantly depicts the social and political atmosphere in which Marx wrote. This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Ryan which traces the place of Berlin's Karl Marx from its pre-World War II publication to the present, and shows why Berlin's portrait, in the midst of voluminous writings about Marx, remains a classic account of the personal and political side of this monumental figure.

„Marxismus und Philosophie“ (1923) zählt neben Georg Lukács’ „Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein“ (1923) zu den klassischen Werken des kritischen Marxismus. Hier wendet Korsch zum erstenmal die materialistische Geschichtsauffassung auf die Geschichte des Marxismus, insbesondere in der Periode der II. Internationale an. Die Schrift war Gegenstand heftigster Auseinandersetzungen um die theoretische Orientierung der Kommunistischen Internationale nach Lenins Tod und wurde schon zu Lebzeiten in viele Sprachen, u.a. ins Russische, Japanische, Chinesische übersetzt. (Quelle: [Offizin Verlag](https://www.offizin-verlag.de/Korsch-Karl-Marxismus-und-Philosophie-Gesamtausgabe-Band-3))

Kenneth Winkler's deft abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised. His insightful introduction provides the reader with both a historical and a philosophical context in which to assess Locke's masterwork.

"A work of incalculable historical and cultural significance, The First Writings of Karl Marx is the first complete single-volume edition of Karl Marx's doctoral dissertation to appear in English. This collection includes the full text of Marx's dissertation, Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, as well as a sampling of his correspondence from the same period (1836-1841), and selections from the philosophical notebooks he prepared in advance of the dissertation. Taken together, these materials comprise the earliest period of Marx's intellectual life, and offer a detailed portrait of the genesis of his philosophical worldview. The Marx who emerges in these writings is a precocious, fiercely passionate student who, at the University of Berlin, found himself in the midst of the most fertile and contentious philosophical scene in mid-19th century Europe. Despite their youthfulness, these writings are lit with ambition, and are the first major works of a man who would go on to change the course of history."--Jacket.