First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
PLACING KARL MARX AND HIS IDEA IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/ Harvard U. Press, 2016) (From the book jacket: "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.").