The first, The Holy Family (1845), written in collaboration with Engels, was a polemic against the former teacher of Marx and Young Hegelian, philosopher Bruno Bauer. The second was Misère de la philosophie (Poverty of Philosophy), written in French by Marx himself, and published in 1847 in...
written in German for a German audience. That came out in 1845. I’ve done a lot of work on Engels and my view is that he rather went downhill after he attached himself to Marx. He adopted this second fiddle/sidekick/political-confrère persona. But in the later 1870s, as Marx is ...
17. Asking For It by Louise O'Neill Buy on Amazon Add to library Asking For It is the kind of book you devour, but not the kind you enjoy. Not because it isn’t well written — Louise O’Neill is fearless and moving — but because it tells a devastating story about rape culture ...
which was co-written by Hitchens and fellow writer/director, Alex Gibney. Hitchens makes an appearance in the film, being interviewed about Kissinger. The documentary also features film of Kissinger but only in archive footage. In the words of Hitchens, Kissinger deserves prosecution "for war crim...
The book has received more than 1,700 comments on China's Dangdang e-commerce platform, with many saying that the book "is written in plain language and easy to understand." The award-winning books were selected by the New Reading Research Institute, a non-profit research organization speciali...
Our closing poem, “Another Shell,” was written and recorded by Sarah James and was first published in Critical Survey. Episode 1BonesWelcome to the first episode of Salon B, the new podcast from Berghahn Books. We are happy that you could join us as we embark on this exciting project....
This political movement, Socialism, was proposed by the German philosopher Karl Marx, who died in 1883. Socialism has been tried twice on planet Earth. In Russia (USSR –Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and China (PRC –People’s Republic of China). In those early days, Socialism and ...
Compile all the abecedaries ever created and it would approximate the result of Adam and Eve’s task of naming all the creatures and things of the world. Leonard Baskin echoes that innocence inHosie’s Alphabet(1972) with its words and animals supplied by his children. If Adam and Eve had...
that it posits a breakdown of the bicameral mind. I think it’s possible to route around these flaws while keeping the thesis otherwise intact. So I’m going to start by reviewing a slightly different book, the one Jaynes should have written. Then I’ll talk about the more dubious one ...
Marx was inspired by classical political economists such as Adam Smith andDavid Ricardo. While his own branch of economics, Marxian economics, is not favored among modern mainstream thought,Marx's ideashave greatly impacted societies, most prominently in communist projects such as those in the USSR...