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Karl Marx and the birth of modern society : the life of Marx and the development of his work. Volume I, 1818-1841 / by Michael Heinrich ; translated from the German by Alexander Locasio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinrich, Michael, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Karl Marx und die Geburt der modernen Gesellschaft. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Marx, Karl.
- Communists--Germany--Biography.
- Communists.
- Communism--History.
- Communism.
- Marxian economics--History.
- Marxian economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- A new, comprehensive biography of the life and work of Karl Marx For over a century, Karl Marx's critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements.Now, recent economic crises have made it imperative for us to comprehend and actualize Marx's ideas.
- Contents:
- Cover
- KARL MARX AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SOCIETY
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction: Why Marx?
- CHAPTER ONE: FORGOTTEN YOUTH 1818-1835
- - What We Know for Sure
- - Trier between Idyll and Pauperism
- - Karl Marx's Parents
- - From the Promise of a Constitution through the July Revolution to the Storming of the Main Police Station in Frankfurt: Political Conditions in Germany
- - The Trier Casino Affair of 1834 and Heinrich Marx's Political Views
- - The Fatherly Friend
- Johann Ludwig von Westphalen
- - Karl Marx at Gymnasium
- - Bonds and Impetuses
- CHAPTER TWO: AWAKENING AND FIRST CRISIS 1835-1838
- - Interlude in Bonn
- - Jenny von Westphalen
- - The First Year in Berlin
- - The First Intellectual Crisis: The Turn Away from Poetry and Transition to Hegel's Philosophy
- - Conflicts with Jenny and Marx's Father
- CHAPTER THREE: THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUNG HEGELIANISM, AND MARX'S DISSERTATION PROJECTS, 1838-1841
- - Marx's Life in Berlin, 1838-41
- - The Critique of Religion in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
- - Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and the Debates of the 1830s
- - The Beginnings of Young Hegelianism
- - Bauer and Marx
- - Marx's Dissertation Projects
- Appendix: How Is Biographical Writing Possible Today? On the Methodology of a Marx Biography
- Glossary of Names
- Marx Family Tree
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 22, 2019).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-58367-737-2
- OCLC:
- 1097366788
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