Commentary

• Meaning in History by Karl Löwith

  - Lowith, Karl. Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.  
  From the Publisher: Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in… More

• From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in 19th Century Thought

  - Lowith, Karl. From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in 19th Century Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964
  From the Publisher: “Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, Löwith discusses how Hegel’s students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaard, interpreted—-or reinterpreted—-their master’s thought,… More

• History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

  - Lukács, György. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971.
  “This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of… More

• Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage

  - Barzun, Jacques. Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
  From the Publisher: “Reassesses the stature and contributions of the three, points out their similarities, and attempts to explain why they have come to be so revered.”

• “Historical Theory and the Structure of Moral Argument in Marx”

  - Gilbert, Alan. “Historical Theory and the Structure of Moral Argument in Marx.” Political Theory, Vol. 9 (1981), pp. 173–205.
  From the Publisher: “Marx’s critique of prevailing moralities can, however, be mistakenly interpreted as denying any separable sphere of moral argument and re- flection. In this view, which I will call the historicist critique of morality, Marx… More

• “An Ambiguity in Marx’s and Engels’s Account of Justice and Equality”

  - Gilbert, Alan. “An Ambiguity in Marx’s and Engels’s Account of Justice and Equality.” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 76 (1982), pp. 328–346.
  Abstract: “Given the widespread moral conventionalism or historicism in contemporary social science and ethics, many have viewed Marx as arguing either that conceptions of justice simply shift historically and lack objectivity (relativism) or that… More

• History, Labour, and Freedom: Themes from Marx

  - Cohen, G. A. History, Labour, and Freedom: Themes from Marx. New York: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  From the Publisher: “Taking Karl Marx’s theory of history as their point of departure, these essays, extensively revised and rewritten for this volume, chronicle the growth of humanity’s power to produce, and the suffering that the… More

• The Cambridge Companion to Marx

  - Carver, Terrell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  From the Publisher: “Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as… More

• Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx: Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the Idea of Progress

  - Plamenatz, John. Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx: Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the Idea of Progress. London: Longman, 1992.
  From the Publisher: “The classic introduction to modern political theory and the history of political thought from Machiavelli to Marx. The third voume covers Hegel, Marx and Engels and The Idea of Progress.”

• From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx

  - Hook, Sidney. From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
  From the Publisher: “In this brilliant work, first published in 1936, Sydney Hook seeks to resolve one of the classic problems of European intellectual history: how the political radicalism and philosophical materialism of Karl Marx issued from the… More

• Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

  - Marcuse, Herbert. Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “It is of the very definition of any “classic” work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by… More

• The Hegel-Marx Connection

  - Burns, Tony. The Hegel-Marx Connection. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
  From the Publisher: “A major and timely re-examination of key areas in the social and political thought of Hegel and Marx. The editors’ extensive introduction surveys the development of the connection from the Young Hegelians through the main… More

• Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence

  - Cohen, G. A. Karl Marx’s Theory of History : A Defence. Princeton University Press, 2001.
  From the Publisher: “First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen’s masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded… More

• Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History

  - Kautsky, Karl. Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History. Amsterdam: Fredonia Books., 2002.
  From the Publisher: “This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character… More

• The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century

  - Aron, Raymond. The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
  Excerpt: “In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an active participant. Combining objectivity with incisive questioning, Aron’s reading of… More

• Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

  - Kolakowski, Leszek, and P. S Falla. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
  From the Publisher: “Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his definitive Main… More

• The Origins of Totalitarianism

  - Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Memphis: General Books, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt… More

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

  - Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. London; New York: Penguin Classics, 2010.
  Excerpt: “The following chapters are, in a sense, the execution of a bequest. No less a man than Karl Marx had made it one of his future tasks to present the results of Morgan’s researches in the light of the conclusions of his own — within certain… More