Marx’s Social Critique of Culture

Louis Dupre's engagement with Marx and Marxism over the decades has culminated in this in-depth yet accessible study of what forms Marx's understanding of human society and its subsequent critique of culture. What adds to this work, however, is the background of Dupre's understanding of the history of Western thinking (e.g., his Passage to Modernity and The Intellectual Foundations of the Enlightenment). Because of this he is able to situate the underpinnings of Marx's philosophy within a larger analysis and critique, making the various domains of his philosophy both acessible and interconnected--e.g., from philosophical anthropology to the economic transformation of the theory of value. Finally, Dupre engages with many of the main commentators on Marx,ranging from Anglo-American to Contintental thinkers.