{"product_id":"the-german-ideology-a-new-abridgement","title":"The German Ideology: A New Abridgement","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA new abridgement of Marx and Engels’s 1846 reckoning with the philosophical tradition, edited and with an introduction by philosopher Tom Whyman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdited and with an introduction by philosopher Tom Whyman, this new abridged version\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esheds new light on one of the most difficult, disputed texts in Marx’s oeuvre.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten in 1846 and subsequently abandoned by Marx and Engels, only to be rescued in the 1930s by researchers in the USSR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the high point of Marx’s philosophical thought: a brilliantly insightful, still thrillingly radical work of materialist philosophical therapy. Yet there remains no wholly satisfactory stand-alone version in English, with only a heavily abridged 1970 edition edited by C.J. Arthur, or a facsimile edition taken from Vol. 5 of the Marx-Engels Collected Works, which does not include satisfactory scholarly notes, currently available. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this new Repeater Classics edition, Tom Whyman seeks to remedy this. By expanding on generally-available abridgements to include the bulk of the section on Max Stirner, as well as amending the translation, adding notes and providing a new critical introduction, this new edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e will allow non-specialists to engage with this critical work for the first time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt a time when interest in Marx's work is increasing, as people look for an alternative to our currently failing political system, this new edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e will bring Marx's most substantial vision of what communism might actually be like to a whole new audience.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42575506931949,"sku":"9781913462956","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/910n3q-hP7L.jpg?v=1647408639","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-german-ideology-a-new-abridgement","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}