Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271025816 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marx’s Fate is an intellectual biography of Marx that combines historical, textual and psychological analyses to provide major new insights into the philosopher’s writings and development.
Jerrold Seigel is Professor of History at New York University and author of Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism (1968) and Bohemian Paris (1986).
"A man for the times? The experience of defeat" according to John C. Landon. This is one of the most useful and interesting of the Marx biographies and shows us another Marx, behind the man of fiction who was a later invention. Christopher Hill in _The Experience of Defeat_ details a host of figures in the English Civil War, from the Levellers to the Fifth Monarchists, who were written out of history, and who had to live with failed revolutionary lifetimes. We forget the actual
Yet Professor Seigel has achieved just that.”—David McLellan“Seigel brings us, in many crucial ways, closer to Marx than we have ever been. Seigel explains how experiences of childhood and early indoctrination in Hegelian philosophy influenced Marx throughout his life, and how these early conflicts were later reflected in his vacillation between ‘theory and reality, thought and the world.’ By providing generous portions of background history, Seigel shows how Marx was very