TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stedman Jones,Gareth
TI  - KARL MARX: Greatness and Illusion
SN  - 9780713999044
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Biography
KW  - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
KW  - Philosophy, Marxist
KW  - Europe
KW  - Europe -- Politics and government -- 1789-1900
KW  - Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Communism and society
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Socialists
N1  - 'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark

'There is no better guide to Marx than Gareth Stedman Jones' Economist

'Rich and deeply researched' John Gray

As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political, economic, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances shrank, new towns sprang up, and ingenious inventions transformed the industrial landscape. It was an era dominated by new ideas about God, human capacities, industry, revolution, empires and political systems - and above all, the shape of the future.

One of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland and a man whose entire life was devoted to making sense of the hopes and fears of the nineteenth century world. Gareth Stedman Jones's impressive biography explores how Marx came to his revolutionary ideas in an age of intellectual ferment, and the impact they had on his times. In a world where so many things were changing so fast, would the coming age belong to those enthralled by the events which had brought this world into being, or to those who feared and loathed it?

This remarkable book allows the reader to understand as never before the world of ideas which shaped Marx's world - and in turn made Marx shape our own
ER  -