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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Stedman Jones, Gareth (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Karl Marx [Texte imprimé] : greatness and illusion / Gareth Stedman Jones
Édition : First Harvard University press edition
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : the Belknap press of Harvard university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-750 p.-[16] f. de pl.) : ill., cartes, portraits ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Références bibliogr. Index
As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and
Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before
twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce
lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges
and new notions about God, human capacities, empires, and political systems--and,
above all, the shape of the future. In the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, a
Europe-wide argument began about the industrial transformation of England, the Revolution
in France, and the hopes and fears generated by these occurrences. Would the coming
age belong to those enthralled by the revolutionary events and ideas that had brought
this world into being, or would its inheritors be those who feared and loathed it?
Stedman Jones gives weight not only to Marx's views but to the views of those with
whom he contended. He shows that Marx was as buffeted as anyone else living through
a period that both confirmed and confounded his interpretations--and that ultimately
left him with terrible intimations of failure. Karl Marx allows the reader to understand
Marx's milieu and development, and makes sense of the devastating impact of new ways
of seeing the world conjured up by Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Ricardo, Saint-Simon, and
others. We come to understand how Marx transformed and adapted their philosophies
into ideas that would have--through twists and turns inconceivable to him--an overwhelming
impact across the globe in the twentieth century.
Sujet(s) : Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Philosophie marxiste
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780713999044. - ISBN 9780674971615. - ISBN 0674971612 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451458624
Notice n° :
FRBNF45145862
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