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.
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A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century. Stedman Jones explores the friendships, affinities, rivalries and hatreds that shaped Marx's life with elegance and analytical brilliance. He anchors his narrative in a startlingly textured account of the society and politics of Marx's era.
Most important of all, he brings to life the thoughts of a plethora of other writers, showing how Marx's engagements with the thoughts of others enabled him to navigate a course that often had little or nothing to do with the Marxism of the twentieth century. A profound reappraisal and a gripping read.
--Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century ... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers
'The definitive biography of Marx for our time' Peter E. Gordon, The New York Times
'Superb, absorbing ... Stedman Jones's book is a treat ... required reading for anyone interested in understanding the difference between what Marx intended and what has been perpetrated in his name' Rachel Holmes, Daily Telegraph
'Rich and deeply researched' John Gray, Literary Review
'Gareth Stedman Jones's engrossing book takes us back to who Marx really was ... whether you are a Marxist or not, there's no denying that his thought is a fundamental tool for the understanding of history' Michael Wood, BBC History Magazine
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