在政治理论领域，“剑桥政治思想史原著系列”作为主要的学生教科丛书，如今已牢固确立了其地位。本丛书旨在使学生能够获得从古腊到20世纪初期西方政治思想史方面所有最为重要的原著；它囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛。不那么出名的作品；而在此之前，这些作品中有许多从未有过现代英文版本可资利用。只要可能，所选原著都会以完整而不删节的形式出版，其中的译作则是专门为本丛书的目的而安排。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南。以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。本丛书的最终目的是，为西方政治思想的整个发展脉络提供一个清晰的轮廓。

　　作者简介：Marx:Early Political Writings

　　The political doctrine of Karl Marx is to bc found in a broad range.of both published and unpublished writings:This volume, the frist of two which together span his entire output.presents his early texts of 1843-7,which predate the Communist Manifesto.Excerpts from the‘Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’and from the Paris Notebooks,‘Points on the State and Bourgeois Society'and other writings are newly translated and arranged in a sequence that illuminates the development of Marx's thought,while the introduction discusses the circumstances surrounding the composition of the texts,the development of his‘materialist'theory of history and politics,the question of his contemporary relevance,and the relationship between the apparently utopian and millennialist elements in his thought and his concept of democracy.A chronology of Marx's life and career and an annotated bibliography complete a volume which will be an invaluable guide to the formation of one of the most influential doctrines in the history of political thought.