Karl Marx : philosophy and revolution /

Karl Marx (1818-1883)--philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor--was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresent...

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Main Author: Avineri, Shlomo, 1933-2023 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New Haven, Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Jew? Or Jewish origin? A converted Jew?
  • 2. Transcending Hegel
  • 3. "Zur Judenfrage"
  • 4. Paris and Brussels: formative years
  • 5. 'The communist manifesto' and the revolutions of 1848, 84
  • 6. London: from abject penury to middle-cass existence
  • 7. The first international and 'Das Kapital'
  • 8. The Paris commune and the Gotha program: debacle and hope
  • 9. Toward the sunset
  • 10. A historical perspective: impact and legacy
  • Epilogue. Distant echoes?