Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory

Author:   Paul Blackledge
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Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 December 2019
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Author:   Paul Blackledge
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
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Weight:   0.227kg
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9781438476872


ISBN 10:   1438476876
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 December 2019
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Marx, Engels, Marxism 1. Discovering the Working Class 2. Mapping the English Working Class 3. A New Theoretical Foundation: The German Ideology 4. The Communist Manifesto: A Strategy for the Left 5. 1848: War, Revolution, and the National Question 6. 1848: Intervening in the Revolution 7. Learning Lessons from Defeat 8. Military Critic: Confronting the Prospect of War 9. Revolutionary Continuity 10. Method and Value: (Mis)Understanding Capital 11. Philosophy and Revolution: Anti-Dühring 12. Toward a Unitary Theory of Women’s Oppression 13. Beyond 1848: Engels’s “Testament” 14. Legacy Bibliography Index

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...Blackledge's book proves a very useful source of reference for the students of Engels. Blackledge clearly shows that there are still many fields to be explored and various questions to be answered, from political economy and philosophical dialectics to women's oppression and morality. In this regard, Engels rightfully earned a place for himself in the timeline of socialist theory and practice. - Marx & Philosophy Review of Books This is an excellent intellectual and political biography, which provides a highly readable account of its subject and a vigorous defense of his ideas. It is likely to become a standard work on Engels's ideas and politics. - Sean Sayers, author of Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes Paul Blackledge's new book has no equal as a contemporary assessment of Engels's political thought. It provides a strong refutation of the 'divergence thesis,' whereby Engels is said to have systematically diverged from Marx's analysis. Appearing on the 200th anniversary of Engels's birth, it should be widely read. - John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature Clear, balanced, and comprehensive, Blackledge's book is the best introduction to Engels that I know. It does full justice to the many areas in which Engels displayed his prodigious talents. - David McLellan, author of Karl Marx: A Biography Paul Blackledge has brought us a remarkable political and intellectual portrait of Friedrich Engels. This book is a masterful tour, taking the reader through Engels's contributions to philosophy, dialectics, political economy, revolution, reform, strategy and tactics, military theory and history, the origins of women's oppression and the state, natural science, and more. All of the great controversies are here; you will find all of the rich traditions of classical Marxism compiled together, plus a few surprises even for the most seasoned reader. - David Laibman, editor, Science & Society


This is an excellent intellectual and political biography, which provides a highly readable account of its subject and a vigorous defense of his ideas. It is likely to become a standard work on Engels's ideas and politics. - Sean Sayers, author of Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes Paul Blackledge's new book has no equal as a contemporary assessment of Engels's political thought. It provides a strong refutation of the `divergence thesis,' whereby Engels is said to have systematically diverged from Marx's analysis. Appearing on the 200th anniversary of Engels's birth, it should be widely read. - John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature Clear, balanced, and comprehensive, Blackledge's book is the best introduction to Engels that I know. It does full justice to the many areas in which Engels displayed his prodigious talents. - David McLellan, author of Karl Marx: A Biography Paul Blackledge has brought us a remarkable political and intellectual portrait of Friedrich Engels. This book is a masterful tour, taking the reader through Engels's contributions to philosophy, dialectics, political economy, revolution, reform, strategy and tactics, military theory and history, the origins of women's oppression and the state, natural science, and more. All of the great controversies are here; you will find all of the rich traditions of classical Marxism compiled together, plus a few surprises even for the most seasoned reader. - David Laibman, editor, Science & Society


The major study for the [Engels] bicentenary, in anglophone terms, is Paul Blackledge's Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory. - Terrell Carver, from the Introduction to The Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition ...Blackledge's book proves a very useful source of reference for the students of Engels. Blackledge clearly shows that there are still many fields to be explored and various questions to be answered, from political economy and philosophical dialectics to women's oppression and morality. In this regard, Engels rightfully earned a place for himself in the timeline of socialist theory and practice. - Marx & Philosophy Review of Books This is an excellent intellectual and political biography, which provides a highly readable account of its subject and a vigorous defense of his ideas. It is likely to become a standard work on Engels's ideas and politics. - Sean Sayers, author of Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes Paul Blackledge's new book has no equal as a contemporary assessment of Engels's political thought. It provides a strong refutation of the 'divergence thesis,' whereby Engels is said to have systematically diverged from Marx's analysis. Appearing on the 200th anniversary of Engels's birth, it should be widely read. - John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature Clear, balanced, and comprehensive, Blackledge's book is the best introduction to Engels that I know. It does full justice to the many areas in which Engels displayed his prodigious talents. - David McLellan, author of Karl Marx: A Biography Paul Blackledge has brought us a remarkable political and intellectual portrait of Friedrich Engels. This book is a masterful tour, taking the reader through Engels's contributions to philosophy, dialectics, political economy, revolution, reform, strategy and tactics, military theory and history, the origins of women's oppression and the state, natural science, and more. All of the great controversies are here; you will find all of the rich traditions of classical Marxism compiled together, plus a few surprises even for the most seasoned reader. - David Laibman, editor, Science & Society


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Paul Blackledge teaches at Shanxi University. He is the author of Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution, also published by SUNY Press; Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History; and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left.

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