Karl Marx by Werner Blumenberg

Karl Marx by Werner Blumenberg

Focusing as much on Marx's private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks into detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes generous quotations from a wide range of correspondence in addition to virtually every photograph in existence of Marx and his closest associates. Blumenberg examines Marx's early writing as a school boy and his romantic poetry whilst a student, as well as his exchanges with close friend and collaborator, Frederick Engels. In these pages are moving accounts of the privations of Marx's poverty-stricken life in London and the tragedies that struck his family, as well as discussions of his intellectual development and political activity.

[T]he author rightly believed that to present a truthful and unadorned account of the human Marx, in place of the stereotype Promethean demi-god, in no way detracted from Marx's greatness-- Gareth Steadman Jones, from the preface
A work of painstaking scholarship consciously aimed at a wide readership. * Economist *
Blumenberg describes the facts of Marx's life without pulling any punches -an excellent book. * Times Literary Supplement *

Gareth Stedman Jones is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of An End to Poverty? and Languages of Class: Studies in Working-Class History 1832-1982.

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ISBN 13	9781859847053
ISBN 10	1859847056
Title	Karl Marx
Author	Werner Blumenberg
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	1999-01-17
Number of pages	176
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