Making Sense of Marx
{{short description|1985 book by Jon Elster}}
{{Infobox book |
| name = Making Sense of Marx
| image = File:Making Sense of Marx (first edition).jpg
| caption = Cover
| author = Jon Elster
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| subject = Karl Marx
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| pub_date = 1985
| media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
| pages = 556
| isbn = 978-0521297059
}}
Making Sense of Marx is a 1985 book about Karl Marx by the social and political theorist Jon Elster, in which the author reevaluates Marx's ideas. The book has received a mixture of praise and criticism from commentators.
Reception
Making Sense of Marx was praised as "sharp" and "hard-headed" by the political scientist David McLellan.McLellan 1995. p. 441. The political philosopher Richard W. Miller called Elster's work "erudite".Miller 1999. p. 77.
Conversely, the Marxist economist Ernest Mandel gave the work a negative review,Mandel 1989. pp. 105-132. while the philosopher Jan Narveson wrote that the work was, "greeted with highly mixed feelings by those who had hoped the title meant that there was sense to be made" of Marx.Narveson 2001. p. 348.
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- {{cite book |author=Mandel, Ernest |editor1=Ware, Robert |editor2=Nielsen, Kai |title=Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism |publisher=The University of Calgary Press |location=Calgary |year=1989 |isbn=0-919491-14-6 }}
- {{cite book |author=McLellan, David |title=Karl Marx: A Biography |publisher=Papermac |location=London |year=1995 |isbn=0-333-63947-2 }}
- {{cite book |author=Miller, Richard W. |editor=Carver, Terrell |title=The Cambridge Companion to Marx |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1999 |isbn=0-521-36694-1 }}
- {{cite book |author=Narveson, Jan |title=The Libertarian Idea |publisher=Broadview Press |location=Orchard Park, New York |year=2001 |isbn=1-55111-421-6 }}
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