@article{775624,
      recid = {775624},
      author = {Stedman Jones, Gareth,},
      title = {Karl Marx : greatness and illusion /},
      pages = {xvii, 750 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      note = {"First published by Penguin Books Ltd, London."--Title  page verso.},
      abstract = {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 of the future.  In the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, a Europe-wide  argument began about the industrial transformation of  England, the Revolution in France, and the hopes and fears  generated by these occurrences. Would the coming age belong  to those enthralled by the revolutionary events and ideas  that had brought this world into being, or would its  inheritors be those who feared and loathed it? Stedman  Jones gives weight not only to Marx's views but to the  views of those with whom he contended. He shows that Marx  was as buffeted as anyone else living through a period that  both confirmed and confounded his interpretations--and that  ultimately left him with terrible intimations of failure.  Karl Marx allows the reader to understand Marx's milieu and  development, and makes sense of the devastating impact of  new ways of seeing the world conjured up by Kant, Hegel,  Feuerbach, Ricardo, Saint-Simon, and others. We come to  understand how Marx transformed and adapted their  philosophies into ideas that would have--through twists and  turns inconceivable to him--an overwhelming impact across  the globe in the twentieth century.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775624},
}