About the Author

G. A. Cohen was emeritus fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Reviews

"Winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize"

"Cohen's blend of sound scholarship and acute philosophical reasoning has produced a work with which anyone seriously interested in understanding Marx must come to terms."---Peter Singer, New York Review of Books

"A clear, definite, and well-reasoned interpretation of what the theory really is. . . . Admirably argued and generally exhilarating."---Anthony Quinton, The Times Literary Supplement

"[Karl Marx's Theory of History] is an ambitious and impressive work. . . . Cohen writes with limpidity, verve, and honesty."---William H. Shaw, American Historical Review