World to Win - The Life and Works of Karl Marx

Sven-Eric Liedman

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Verso, 2018

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Karl Marx has had an impressive afterlife for someone who spent much of his actual life worrying about money, arguing with friends, and not quite finishing his magnum opus. World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman takes on the enviable task of explaining both the man and the ideas, which is rather like trying to catalogue a storm while standing in it. This is not a brisk pamphlet. It is a large, thoughtful, occasionally formidable biography that follows Marx from student radical to exiled intellectual, from newspaper man to library-haunting theorist, from friend of Engels to the author of works that would be read, misread, adopted, weaponised, and quoted far more widely than he ever managed to get paid. Liedman does something rather useful: he treats Marx as a human being rather than a monument. The result is a portrait of someone brilliant, stubborn, often exasperating, and deeply embedded in the turbulent politics and economic transformations of the 19th century. There are debts, illnesses, arguments, and the constant struggle to turn big ideas into finished writing, which may feel reassuringly familiar to anyone who has ever had a deadline. There is, of course, a rich layer of irony here. Marx, the critic of capitalism, now firmly installed as a subject within the global book market. His ideas, once dangerous, now neatly bound, barcoded, and sold in good condition by Crappy Old Books. History does enjoy a quiet joke. Yet the book never becomes flippant. It takes seriously the scale of Marx?s thinking, the ambition of his project, and the reasons why his work continues to matter, whether one agrees with it or not. It is as much about the 19th century as it is about the intellectual machinery that still hums underneath modern debates about inequality, labour, and power. This good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, is ideal for readers of intellectual history, political theory, and anyone who suspects that the world did not simply arrange itself by accident. A substantial read, certainly?but then so was Marx.…

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Título
World to Win - The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Autor
Sven-Eric Liedman
Editorial
Verso
Año de publicación
2018
Estado
Near Fine
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1786635054
ISBN 13
9781786635051

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