Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx

Name: Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx
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By István Hont

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István Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished material from an early project rewriting the history of liberty, politics and political economy from Samuel Pufendorf to Karl Marx was discovered. This book brings together seven of Hont's previously unpublished papers, providing a revolutionary intellectual history of the Marxian notion of communism and revealing its origin in seventeenth-century natural jurisprudence. Hont aspired to integrate the history and theory of politics and economics, to infuse present-day concerns with a knowledge of past events and theoretical responses. The essays selected for this volume realise Hont's historical imagination, range and intellectual ambition, exploring his belief that Marxism ought to be abandoned and explaining how to do it.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 294
Release Date:: 2025-09-30
Publication Date:: 2025-12-20
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1009597558
ISBN13:: 9781009597555
Weight:: 429 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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