{"product_id":"karl-marx-isbn-9781859842546","title":"Karl Marx","description":"This classic biography of Karl Marx, complete with Gareth Stedman Jones’ poignant introduction, is unlike any other account of its subject. Focusing as much on Marx’s private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks in detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes generous quotations from a wide range of correspondence in addition to virtually every photograph in existence of Marx and his closest associates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlumenberg examines Marx’s early writing as a schoolboy and his romantic poetry whilst a student, as well as his exchanges with close friend and collaborator Frederick Engels. In these pages are moving accounts of the privations of Marx’s poverty-stricken life in London and the tragedies which struck his family, as well as discussions of his intellectual development and political activity.Including virtually every photograph in existence of Marx and his closest associates, and focusing as much on his private life as on his public persona and work, Werner Blumenberg’s biography provides an intimate portrait of the making of a complex intellectual the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e dubbed “the next most influential thinker.”“Blumenberg describes the facts of Marx’s life without pulling any punches ... an excellent book.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A work of painstaking scholarship consciously aimed at a wide readership.”—\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWerner Blumenberg\u003c\/b\u003e was a member of the underground against Hitler both in Germany and as an émigré in Holland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGareth Stedman Jones \u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAn End to Poverty?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Class: Studies in Working-Class History 1832–1982\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303855247589,"sku":"NP9781859842546","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781859842546.jpg?v=1767730635","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/karl-marx-isbn-9781859842546","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}