Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion

by Gareth Stedman Jones

Book Overview

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges and new notions about God, human capacities, empires, and political systems--and, above all, the shape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971612
• ISBN13: 9780674971615
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"