Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087140737X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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This major biography fundamentally reshapes our understanding of a towering historical figure. Based on unprecedented access to the recently opened archives of Marx’s and Engels’s complete writings, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life provides a historical context for the personal story of one of the most influential and controversial political philosophers in Western history. By removing Marx from the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century that colored his legacy and placing him within “the society and intellectual currents of the nineteenth century&
--Gilbert Taylor . From Booklist Recent Marx biographies, such as Francis Wheen’s Karl Marx (2000) and Mary Gabriel’s Love and Capital (2011), leave scholarly room for Sperber’s cradle-to-grave portrait. According to Sperber, Marx’s intellectualism, despite his prophetic visions of a Communist society, was retrospective. A specialist in nineteenth-century European history, Sperber maintains that Marx, the power of his ideas having “run their course,” must be anchored historically to his youthful inspiration by Hegelian philosophy and the French Revolution. Sperber’s interpretations of Marx’s ideas might rankle a modern Marxist, who believes in their contemporary relevance, which implies a subsidiary purpose of Sperber’s work, to depict Marx the man before there was Marx the “ism.” That aim results in Sperber&rs
Jonathan Sperber, the author of The European Revolutions, 1848–1851, is the Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri. . He has written extensively on the social and political history of nineteenth-century Europe
Full Marx Dr. J V. Slavin Makes the great revolutionary writer human, carbuncles and all. A well researched biography.. "Nobody living today can truly imagine how rough those conditions were for the poor people." according to Tom Brewer. It seems that he truly had sympathy for the working class due to the harsh working conditions in those days. Nobody living today can truly imagine how rough those conditions were for the poor people.. Hans G. Despain said Very solid biography with flaws. This is a valuable biography. After the Great Recession of "Very solid biography with flaws" according to Hans G. Despain. This is a valuable biography. After the Great Recession of 2007 there emerged a revival of Marx. One way to engage Marx as a young intellectual is to read a new biography. Sperber's book provides a very sober political biography of Marx. Sperber writes "Marx as a contemporary whose ideas are sha. 007 there emerged a revival of Marx. One way to engage Marx as a young intellectual is to read a new biography. Sperber's book provides a very sober political biography of Marx. Sperber writes "Marx as a contemporary whose ideas are sha