00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003949 20200508202520 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-531-6b6 010-0520003949 eng 001.03 001.03/MAR/G Karl Marx Great Books of The Western World, Vol. 50/07424 8 New York Abdi Tandur 2005 v; 434 Hal 434 Hal Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 50 served the history, philosophy and works of Karl Marx: Capital. The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although he was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883.