Engels before Marx - Terrell Carver
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This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and Vocation. Throughout, the reader sees the world from Engelsยฟs perspective, not knowing how his story will turn out. This approach reveals the multifaceted and ambitious character of youn ... Full description
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This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and Vocation. Throughout, the reader sees the world from Engelsยฟs perspective, not knowing how his story will turn out. This approach reveals the multifaceted and ambitious character of young Friedrichยฟs achievements from age sixteen till just turning twenty-five. At the time that he accepted Marxยฟs invitation to co-author a short political satire, Engels was far better known and much more accomplished. He had published many more articles on far more subjects, in both German and English, than Marx had managed. Moreover, he had written a critique of political economy from a perspective unique in the German context, and published his own pioneering and substantial study of working class conditions in an industrializing economy. Offering an innovative approach to a largely neglected period of Engelsยฟs life before meeting Marx, Carver upends standard narratives in existing biographical studies of Engels to reveal him as an important figure not just in relation to his more famous collaborator, but a key voice in the liberal-democratic, constitutional and nation-building revolutionism of the 1830s and 1840s.
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| Author | Terrell Carver |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland |
| Series | Marx, Engels, and Marxisms |
| Release year | 2020 |
| Cover type | Hardcover |
| EAN | 9783030423704 |