Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. Norton. Aug. 2005. c.1504p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-393-06054-3. $49.95. PHIL

With a thoroughness and lucidity unparalleled in any other single tome, this book--first written in Polish in three volumes between 1968 and 1976--addresses the development, practice, and theorists concerned with Marxism, from its origins through the 20th century. Kolakowski, who currently lives in Oxford, England, was the first winner of the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He demonstrates here that that achievement is as much for …