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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790865903321

Autore

Hosfeld Rolf

Titolo

Karl Marx : an intellectual biography / / Rolf Hosfeld ; translated by Bernard Heise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2012

ISBN

1-4619-5202-6

1-78238-430-8

Edizione

[English-language edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

335.4092

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Soggetti

Communists - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the original German.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Ideas; Deeds; Discoveries; Consequences; Bibliography; Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism, Karl Marx's ideas, at least in part, are back in vogue. He is often invoked, yet often misunderstood. In this award-winning biography Rolf Hosfeld offers a new, transparent, and critical view of Marx's turbulent life. Linking the contradictory politician and revolutionary to his work-his errors and misjudgments as well as his pioneering ideas-Hosfeld presents a vivid account of Marx's life between Trier and London. At the same time, he renders accessible Marx