A Requiem for Karl Marx

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As Karl Marx the icon has fallen along with so many communist regimes, we are left with the mystery of Karl Marx the man, the complexities of a life that has profoundly affected millions. A Requiem for Karl Marx is Frank Manuel's searching meditation on that life, a learned and elegantly written engagement with the man and his work.

Manuel gives us a psychological portrait rendered with sympathy and critical detachment, a probing look at the connections between the private drama...

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Overview

As Karl Marx the icon has fallen along with so many communist regimes, we are left with the mystery of Karl Marx the man, the complexities of a life that has profoundly affected millions. A Requiem for Karl Marx is Frank Manuel's searching meditation on that life, a learned and elegantly written engagement with the man and his work.

Manuel gives us a psychological portrait rendered with sympathy and critical detachment, a probing look at the connections between the private drama of Marx's life and his revolutionary ideas. Manuel pursues these connections from Marx's adolescence and education in Trier through his university studies, marriage to a German baroness, and early affiliation with French and German radical groups. Here we see Marx in moments of youthful rapture, in periods of despair, in maneuvers of blatant hypocrisy, in outbursts of self-mockery. We follow his involuted response to his status as a converted Jew, observe the psychic toll of debilitating bouts of illness, and witness the shattering effects of his aggressive, often brutal conduct toward friend and foe alike. Manuel analyzes in intricate detail the central role of Marx's enduring relationship with Friedrich Engels, which appears to transcend the bounds of friendship, and his changing behavior toward his wife, Jenny, the neurotic and tragic figure who shared his dismal London exile.

What becomes clear in this narrative is the link between Marx's personal life and his ideas about class struggle, revolutionary strategy, and utopia—as well as the impact of his personal vision and political tactics on the movements that followed him, down to our day.

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Manuel's erudition as an intellectual historian and his self-confessed attitude as a "skeptical utopian" justify the publication of another book on Marx. A combination of monograph and biography, this book makes an excellent case for the continued study of the "hidden Marx." The author treats most familiar features of the subject along with controversial or lesser-known aspects, e.g., Marx's "self-loathing" because of his Jewish heritage, the literary influences on his writing style, and the "fatal flaw" of neglected nationalism in his thought. One wishes that Manuel had offered more compelling reasons for what he sees as the "intellectual enchantment" of Marx's thought in the century after his death and for the resurgent "universalist utopia" he believes will come. Still, this work is a fitting companion to Isaiah Berlin's classic biography. Recommended for all academic and public libraries.-Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ., Erie
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780674763265
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/1998
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.35 (w) x 9.31 (h) x 0.97 (d)

Meet the Author

Frank E. Manuel is Kenan Professor, Emeritus, New York University, and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, Emeritus, Brandeis University.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introit 1
1 The Alien of Trier 3
2 Joanna Bertha Julie Jenny von Westphalen 27
3 The Dioscuri: Old Moor and the General 55
4 Emigre Cannibalism 88
5 The Albatross: Das Kapital 101
6 The Arena of Class War 121
7 The Ambiguities of Nationhood 142
8 Utopias: The Approved and the Forbidden 155
9 Enemies within the Gates 181
10 Shearing of the Beard 211
11 Vicissitudes of an Icon 227
Notes 243
Index 251
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