Karl Marx - Greatness and Illusion

Gareth Stedman Jones returns Karl Marx to his nineteenth-century world, before later inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. He shows how Marx adapted the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and others into ideas that would have-in ways inconceivable to Marx-an overwhelming impact in the twentieth century.

About the author

Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Stedman Jones, Gareth Stedman Jones
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780674971615
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97161-5
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 242 mm x 53 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Marx, Karl, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Far-left political ideologies and movements