Research Catalog

Title

Karl Marx : philosophy and revolution / Shlomo Avineri.

Author

Avineri, Shlomo, 1933-2023

Publication

[New Haven, Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xi, 217 pages : portrait; 22 cm.

Summary

"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 misrepresented. Here, distinguished scholar Shlomo Avineri argues that Marx's Jewish origins did leave a significant impression on his work. Marx was born in Trier, then part of Prussia, and his family had enjoyed equal rights and emancipation under earlier French control of the area. But then its annexation to Prussia deprived the Jewish population of its equal rights. These developments led to the reluctant conversion of Marx's father, and similar tribulations radicalized many young intellectuals of that time who came from a Jewish background. Avineri puts Marx's Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective, and traces Marx's intellectual development in light of the historical, intellectual, and political contexts in which he lived."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Jewish lives

Uniform Title

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Alternative Title

Philosophy and revolution

Subjects

• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
• Philosophers > Germany > Biography
• Communists > Germany > Biography
• Biographies
• Jews > Germany > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

• Place of publication from book jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.

Contents

Jew? Of Jewish Origin? A Converted Jew? -- Transcending Hegel -- Zur Judenfrage -- Paris and Brussels: Formative Years -- The Communist Manifesto and the Revolutions of 1848 -- London: From Abject Penury to Middle-Class Existence -- The First International and Das Kapital -- The Paris Commune and the Gotha Program: Debacle and Hope -- Toward the Sunset -- A Historical Perspective: Impact and Legacy.

Call Number

JFD 19-4935

ISBN

• 9780300211702
• 0300211708

OCLC

1089573903

Author

Avineri, Shlomo, 1933-2023, author.

Title

Karl Marx : philosophy and revolution / Shlomo Avineri.

Publisher

[New Haven, Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jewish lives

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-4935