Karl Marx

Broschiertes Buch

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Beschreibung

Considered one of Marx¿s most profound monographs and a brilliant history of the proletariat, this 1852 essay¿which originally appeared in Die Revolution magazine¿is Marx¿s commentary on the 1851 French coup by Louis Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, overthrowing the constitution of 1848. Most famous as the source of Marx¿s dictum that history occurs twice, ¿the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce,¿ this work is better known to historians as a vital early discussion of the politics of fascism in the 20th century, which Bonaparte¿s coup anticipated. Students of Marx¿s philosophy and readers in modern political movements will find this an enlightening read. Prussian philosopher KARL MARX (1818-1883) was a social scientist, historian, and political revolutionary. He is indisputably the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although scholars largely ignored him in his own lifetime, his social, economic, and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death.

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Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Marx completed his doctoral thesis, titled The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, in 1841 and submitted it to the University of Jena. He was awarded a Ph.D. in April 1841. In 1844, Marx befriended Friedrich Engels, the German socialist and became a revolutionary communist. Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy was published in 1847. Marx and Engels published ""The Communist Manifesto"", a political pamphlet summarizing their theories about the nature of society and politics, in 1848. One of the most important political documents of the world, this monumental text is highly influential and continues to remain widely read. The first volume, Capital, Volume I, of his magnum opus Capital (Das Kapital) was published in 1867. Marx continued to work on the remaining two volumes which were published after his death by Engels. Capital, Volume II was published in 1885 and Capital, Volume III in 1894. Considered to be his masterwork, Capital has been translated into all the major languages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9781605203591
• ISBN-10: 1605203599
• Artikelnr.: 25891573