Marx on Suicide

In 1846, two years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto and twenty-one years before the publication of Das Kapital, Karl Marx published an essay titled "Peuchet on Suicide." Based on the writings of Jacques Peuchet, a leading French police administrator, economist, and statistician whose memoirs included discussions of suicides in Paris, Marx's essay is not a straightforward translation of Peuchet but instead an essay reflecting his own strong positions on the subjects addressed in Peuchet's work.

Summary

In 1864, Karl Marx published an essay titled "Peuchet on Suicide" as a translation of excerpts from the memoirs of Jacques Peuchet. This text reveals that this was an edited version in which Marx adds passages of his own, altering the emphasis from a moral and psychological focus to a social one.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Marx
• Assisted by: Kevin Anderson (Editor), Eric A. Plaut (Editor), Kevin Anderson (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780810116382
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1638-2
• No. of pages: 147
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 218 g
• Series: Psychosocial issues; Psychosocial Issues
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works