Karl Marx is the most important modern philosopher. His work has radically changed the course of world history, continental philosophy, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The sheer range of his achievements, and the depth of his critical insights, continue to speak to...

Karl Marx begegnet uns in den Namen von Straßen und Plätzen, besonders markant in Monumenten, die allesamt den Umsturz überdauert haben. Ist die fast religiöse Verehrung, die seiner Person - stellvertretend für ein imposantes Ideengebäude - zuteil wird, gerechtfertigt? Wer war Marx...

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...