Karl Marx

"Perhaps it would be more useful to understand Marx, who dealt with the conditions in the first half of the 19th century, as someone who sheds light on the future by looking at the past, than to understand him as a predictive interpreter of historical developments."
-JONATHAN SPERBER-

Could there still be something left to learn about Karl Marx? Historian Jonathan Sperber's work proves that the answer to this question is "yes." Sperber's is a book that allows us to see the life of Karl Marx, one of the polar stars of the modern age with his thoughts and actions, from different perspectives... This biography, above all, helps us get to know "Marx as a human being", in the clichéd expression. Without romanticizing or mythologizing, by telling his greatness despite his weaknesses... By shedding light on his relationships with people, his ambitions, his anxieties, and, for example, his friendship with his life partner Engels... The book, of course, focuses not only on the "private" life of the great thinker, but also on his thought and political life in full detail. Sperber also examines the world of thought formed by the energy flow between the influence of Hegel and the attraction of positive sciences and positivism. Perhaps the most original aspect of the book is this: The author, who is an expert on 19th century Europe, tends to understand Marx's life, thought and action by placing them in the conditions of the period in which he lived. He does this with great care, love of detail and truth. We are reading Marx in a 19th century novel!

"An absorbing, meticulous research..."
-New York Times-

"Extraordinarily detailed…a sparkling book"
-Tageszeitung-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 520

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 520

First Print Year: 2014

Language Turkish