The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a beautiful memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers. Reflecting on the fate of Marxism in an engaging, thoughtful way, this book is filled with revealing family photographs which Sayers uses to craft an original must-read on left-wing thought and politics.

Sean Sayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent and Visiting Professor at Peking University. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and has taught in Colorado, Sydney, Istanbul, Massachusetts, Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai. He has been a central figure in the development of Marxist philosophy in the English-speaking world. He has an international reputation for his work on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy, which has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Turkish. His books include Marx and Alienation (2009), Plato's Republic: An Introduction (1999), Marxism and Human Nature (1998), Reality and Reason (1985), and Hegel, Marx and Dialectic: A Debate (1980). He was one of the founders of Radical Philosophy (1972), and he created the online Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2009).

Preface

Part I: Family and Childhood

1. Family

2. Childhood

3. Family Life

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Part II: Growing Up

4.School

5. Being an American

6. Cambridge

7. Oxford

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Part 3: Work and Adult Life

8. The University of Kent

9. Radical Philosophy

10. Working at Kent

11. Living and Working Abroad

12. Writing and Thought

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Part 4: Later Life

13. Retirement

14. China Again

15. Family History

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Appendix: Analytical and Continental Philosophy