Originally published in French in 1961, this book is one of the standard works on the question of alienation in Marx. In his study of Marx and the role of technology in the modern world, Kostas Axelos interprets Marx from his own distinctive, thought-provoking, philosophical position to achieve two purposes: to examine Marx"s thinking as a coherent an comprehensive philosophy of the human world and then to show it as offering profound insight into the nature and role of technology in that world.