کارل مارکس

by Allen W. Wood, شهناز مسمی پرست (Translator)

Since its first publication in 1981, Karl Marx has become one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought. Allen Wood explains Marx's views from a philosophical standpoint and defends Marx against common misunderstandings and criticisms of his views. All the major philosophical topics in Marx's work are considered: alienation, historical materialism, morality, philosophical materialism, and the dialectical method.

The second edition has been revised to include a new chapter on capitalist exploitation and new suggestions for further reading. Wood has also added a substantial new preface which looks at the fall of the Soviet Union and ambivalence towards capitalism, and explores Marx's relevance and place in the twenty-first century.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, Biography, Economics

517 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 28, 1985

About the author

Allen Wood's interests are in the history of modern philosophy, especially Kant and German idealism, and in ethics and social philosophy. He was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington. His B. A. is from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, his Ph.D. at Yale University. Wood has held regular professorships at Cornell University, Yale University, and Stanford University, where he is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus. He has also held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, University of California at San Diego and Oxford University, where he was Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor in 2005. During year-long periods of research, he has been affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin in 1983-84 and the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1991-1992. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Allen Wood is author of many articles and chapters in philosophical journals and anthologies. The book-length publications he has authored include: Kant's Moral Religion (1970, reissued 2009), Kant's Rational Theology (1978, reissued 2009), Karl Marx (1981, second expanded edition 2004), Hegel's Ethical Thought (1990), Kant's Ethical Thought (1999), Unsettling Obligations (2002), Kant (2004) and Kantian Ethics (2008), The Free Development of Each: (2014), and co-authored with Dieter Schönecker, Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (Harvard University Press, 2015). (A German language version of this commentary has gone through four editions since 2002.) His most recent book is Fichte's Ethical Thought (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Books by Wood have appeared in Hebrew, Turkish, Portuguese, Iranian and Chinese translation. With Paul Guyer, Wood is co-general editor of the Cambridge Edition of Kant's Writings, for which he has edited, translated or otherwise contributed to six volumes. Among the other books Wood has edited are Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy (1984), Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1991), Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2002), Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (2010), and, with Songsuk Susan Hahn, the Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) (2012). He is on the editorial board of eight philosophy journals, six book series and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

At Indiana University Allen Wood has taught courses on the history of modern philosophy, modern political philosophy, Kant, Fichte and existentialism.

Reviews

[Faridfakhr · Rating 5 out of 5]

کتاب جامعی بود.
علیرغم نقدهایی خونده بودم از ترجمه کتاب بسیار راضی بودم
د

[Homayoun · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is an amazing analytical approach to make Marx's philosophy clear to the reader. Allen Wood the author did his best to comprehensively elucidate the theory from a scientific point of view.
The Persian version has the problem of its bad translation. The terms are translated good enough and the message can be conceived adequately to some extent, but grammatical structures makes it hard to read for those whom are not familiar with the context.

[AmirHossein · Rating 4 out of 5]

خوبی این کتاب اینه که بیشتر از شرح، مقدمه یا درآمد یک قرائت فلسفی از مارکس هست و طبیعتا بخش‌های اقتصادی‌تر نوشته‌های مارکس فدای بخش‌های فلسفی‌تر شدند. در کل همین مواجههٔ فلسفی شیوه‌ای هست که شخصا برای روبه‌رو شدن با مارکس بیشتر می‌پسندم.

[Doğukan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marx hakkında uzun süredir okuduğum en sağlam, kapsamlı ve argümantatif metinlerden biri. Yalnızca "İkinci Baskıya Önsöz" bile reel sosyalizmin çöküşünden sonra Marksizmin ne ifade ettiğine dair çok iddialı bir kısım olduğundan ayrıca okunabilecek ölçüde önem taşıyor. Yalnızca Wood'un, Marx'ın kapitalist sisteme getirdiği eleştirinin büsbütün ahlâk-dışı bir noktadan hareket ettiğine dair fikri bana biraz kuşkulu geliyor. Ahlâkçı bir tavrı benimsemediği çok aşikâr olsa da Marx'ın mevcut sisteme dair eleştirilerinde daimî olarak bir ahlâkî yergiye yer verdiğini düşünüyorum. Cinâyetin de âdil olabildiği durumlar üzerine bir analojiyle sömürünün de âdil olabileceği durumlar varsaymak ve Marx'ın bu denli suçlayıcı kelimeler seçmesini böyle bir bağlamda değerlendirmek kulağıma çok doğru gelmedi. Bu nokta dışında, metnin Marx'a dair çok sahih bir anlama çabası güttüğü kanaatindeyim. Özellikle Marx'ın erken dönem metinlerinde beliren, sonraki yıllarda da çok geliştirme ihtiyacı hissetmediği "yabancılaşma" terimini bütün bir Marksist anlayışın kilit kavramı noktasına yükseltme çabalarının ne kadar yersiz olduğu detaylı biçimde açıklanmış. Keza tarihsel materyalizmin özünde teleolojik olduğu fakat teleolojinin de bir "hakaret" olmadığına dair açıklamalar da çok yerindeydi. Kısıtlı kavram bilgisi, teleolojinin bir tür akademik sövgü, adeta belirlenimciliğin, mistik köken göndermelerinin, Aydınlanmacılarda görülen erekselliğin eşanlamlısı gibi kullanılmasına yol açıyor. Bu yönüyle de çok dengeli bir metin.

[Awaz Mebashar]

I shall read an introduction on Marx then come back to this book!

[V.R.T. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Allen Wood must have had a hell of a time putting together a book for the Arguments of the Philosophers on someone who was not a philosopher, at least not after 1845. It is evident that a greater deal of forensic reconstruction was necessary than it might have been, had the subject of the book been a philosopher who was interested in presenting some kind of argument.

Wood succeeds in these reconstructive efforts, but the result is something that is mostly of only abstract, academic value. To put it simply, he gives the right answer to the wrong question. On the one hand, Marx the philosopher is extrapolated ex ungue leonem from various obiter dicta scattered throughout his corpus and scribbled on napkins. On the other, it is necessary to overlook the vast swathes of his work that are not really philosophical beyond the vague way that any statement can be said to be philosophical. The result is a book that newcomer might take to be an introductory summary to the work of Karl Marx, when it is in fact a rather in-the-weeds look at certain minor points of Marxology.

That said, reading this might prevent the formation of some of the more annoying views that even self-styled Marxists come to hold. In particular I am thinking of the sections on morality and materialism, which I hope might cure some of the notions that Marx’s case against bourgeois society is a moral one, or that the historical materialist outlook necessitates strict ontological materialism, respectively.

[Ft. Sheridan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thinks Marx don't need no stinkin morality.

[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing!