Backed by current debate and new perspectives, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of his significant contributions.

List of contributors; Chronology; 1. Reading Marx: life and works Terrell Carver; 2. Critical reception: Marx then and now Paul Thomas; 3. Social and political theory: class, state, revolution Richard W. Miller; 4. Science: realism, criticism, history James Farr; 5. History: critique and irony Terence Ball; 6. Moral philosophy: the critique of capitalism and the problem of ideology Jeffrey Reiman; 7. Political philosophy: Marx and radical democracy Alan Gilbert; 8. Reproduction and the materialist conception of history: a feminist critique Susan Himmelweit; 9. Gender: biology, nature, and capitalism Jeff Hearn; 10. Aesthetics: liberating the senses William Adams; 11. Logic: dialectic and contradiction Lawrence Wilde; 12. History of philosophy: the metaphysics of substance in Marx Scott Meikle; 13. Religion: illusions and liberation Denys Turner; Bibliography; Index.