Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

by Jonathan Sperber

Book Overview

Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization's most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for the darkest atrocities of modern times. But no matter in what light he is cast, the short, but broad-shouldered, bearded Marx remains--as a human being--distorted on a Procrustean bed of political "isms,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404672
• ISBN13: 9780871404671
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"