{"id":3284,"date":"2014-05-05T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:18:36","slug":"marx-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/marx-is-the-new-black","title":{"rendered":"Marx is the New Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HosfeldKarl\"<\/a>Were he still alive, the philosopher behind The Communist Manifesto<\/em> and Das Kapital<\/em> would be celebrating his 196th birthday today.<\/p>\n

Marx has made a comeback recently, with new books on his life and ideas popping up more frequently, and a new wave of “Millennial Marxists” taking to social media to discuss the original socialist’s ideas in a more modern light.<\/p>\n

In honor of the undeniable influence Karl Marx has had on economic and political discourse over the years, we invite you to take a look at our intellectual biography of the philosopher himself.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what the critics are saying about Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography<\/em> by Rolf Hosfeld:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…an elegant compact study [that] explores Marx’s ideas in all their messy complexity.”<\/em> \u2014Times Literary Supplement<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em>\u201cThis 200 page compendium is a deftly written biography offering an informed and informative presentation of Marx’s turbulent personal and professional life. A seminal work of impressive scholarship, [this book] is enhanced by the inclusion of an extensive bibliography making it an especially useful and highly recommended contribution to academic library reference collections and Marxist Studies supplemental reading lists.\u201d<\/em> \u2014The Midwest Book Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book is a delightful gain: biography, theory, revolutionary history, modern history\u2014altogether convincing and gripping. The lively portrait of a brilliant, eternally radical, and strictly speaking rather apolitical, philosopher is illustrated here by Rolf Hosfeld\u2014A great achievement.\u201d<\/em> \u2014DeutschlandRadio<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click here to learn more!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Were he still alive, the philosopher behind The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital would be celebrating his 196th birthday today. Marx has made a comeback recently, with new books on his life and ideas popping up more frequently, and a new wave of “Millennial Marxists” taking to social media to discuss the original socialist’s ideas… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,135,1740,1760,110,640,286,287,1601,2021,204,1835],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21077,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}