Gareth Stedman Jones returns Karl Marx to his nineteenth-century world, before later inventions transformed him into Communism’s patriarch and fierce lawgiver. He shows how Marx adapted the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and others into ideas that would have—in ways inconceivable to Marx—an overwhelming impact in the twentieth century.
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Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones returns Karl Marx to his nineteenth-century world, before later inventions transformed him into Communism’s patriarch and fierce lawgiver. He shows how Marx adapted the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and others into ideas that would have—in ways inconceivable to Marx—an overwhelming impact in the twentieth century.
Gareth Stedman Jones returns Karl Marx to his nineteenth-century world, before later inventions transformed him into Communism’s patriarch and fierce lawgiver. He shows how Marx adapted the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and others into ideas that would have—in ways inconceivable to Marx—an overwhelming impact in the twentieth century.
Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
Cover Title Copyright Contents Illustrations Maps Acknowledgements Prologue: The Making of an Icon, 1883–1920 Chapter 1. Fathers and Sons: The Ambiguities of Becoming a Prussian Chapter 2. The Lawyer, the Poet and the Lover Chapter 3. Berlin and the Approaching Twilight of the Gods Chapter 4. Rebuilding the Polis: Reason Takes On the Christian State Chapter 5. The Alliance of Those Who Think and Those Who Suffer: Paris, 1844 Chapter 6. Exile in Brussels, 1845–8 Chapter 7. The Approach of Revolution: The Problem about Germany Chapter 8. The Mid-Century Revolutions Chapter 9. London Chapter 10. The Critique of Political Economy Chapter 11. Capital, Social Democracy and the International Chapter 12. Back to the Future Epilogue Notes and References Bibliography Index