{"id":24490,"date":"2021-01-08T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24490"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:40:35","slug":"shlomo-avineri-karl-marx-philosophy-and-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24490","title":{"rendered":"Shlomo Avineri, \u201cKarl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx’s life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought<\/strong>

Karl Marx (1818\u20131883)\u2014philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor\u2014was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. Here, distinguished scholar Shlomo Avineri argues that Marx\u2019s Jewish origins did leave a significant impression on his work. Marx was born in Trier, then part of Prussia, and his family had enjoyed equal rights and emancipation under earlier French control of the area. But then its annexation to Prussia deprived the Jewish population of its equal rights. These developments led to the reluctant conversion of Marx\u2019s father, and similar tribulations radicalized many young intellectuals of that time who came from a Jewish background.

Avineri puts Marx\u2019s Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective, and traces Marx\u2019s intellectual development in light of the historical, intellectual, and political contexts in which he lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Jewish Lives:<\/strong>

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:<\/strong>

\u201cExcellent.\u201d \u2013 New York times

\u201cExemplary.\u201d \u2013 Wall St. Journal

\u201cDistinguished.\u201d \u2013 New Yorker

\u201cSuperb.\u201d \u2013 The Guardian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shlomo Avineri<\/strong> is professor emeritus of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. A leading Israeli political scientist, he is the author of The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx<\/em> and The Making of Modern Zionism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISBN: 9780300211702
Publication Date: August 6, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

240 pages, 5 3\/4 x 8 1\/4
1 b\/w illus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300211702\/karl-marx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ve\u010dni Marks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prikaz knjige Shlomo Avineria \u201eKarl Marx: Philosophy and revolution \/ Karl Marks: Filozofija i revolucija\u201c, Yale University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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