Karl Marx

Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism, Karl Marx' ideas, at least in part, are back en vogue. He is often invoked, yet in a way that is ignorant of him or his work. In this biography, which received the 2010 Political Book of the Year Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Rolf Hosfeld offers a new, transparent, and critical view of Marx' turbulent life. Linking the contradictory politician and revolutionary to his work-his errors and misjudgments as well as his pioneering ideas-Hosfeld presents a vivid account of Marx' life between Trier and London and, at the same time, renders accessible Marx' complex work, one of the world's most important within the history of ideas.