– Francis Weehn har tatt på seg oppgaven om å skrive om en av Europas mest kjente tenkere. Og som han selv påpeker er det ikke mange som har tatt seg tid til å skrive om mennesker Karl Marx. Men dette tar Wheen sikte på å gjøre noe med, skjønt han også lett formulert svinger innom temaer som dialektikk og andre filosofer som har hatt innflytelse på Marx. Resultatet er en lettlest bok om ett komplekst menneske.
Noe som irriterte meg er en tendens i forfatteren til å 'hoppe' litt. En bit her og en bit der blir til et fragment av Marx liv og levnet. Dessuten, når han henter biter fra sekvenser som kommer senere i boken, forutsetter han at vi er kjent med det han presenterer. Noe som i mange tilfeller slettes ikke er tilfellet. Så jeg opplevde ofte at boken var litt uoversiktlig.
Men dette tar han igjen med en utallige detaljer, skriveglede og grundighet. Boken gir ett gjennomført bilde av Marxs liv og levnet, samt en kort innførelse i hans teorier og filosofi. Dette krydrer han igjen med særedeles tørr humor, som jeg gjerne ler høyt av.
Karl Marx
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.
The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There have been many thousands of books on Marxism, but almost all are written by academics and zealots for whom it is a near blaspemy to treat him as a figure of flesh and blood. Les mer
The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There have been many thousands of books on Marxism, but almost all are written by academics and zealots for whom it is a near blaspemy to treat him as a figure of flesh and blood. Les mer
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A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.
The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There have been many thousands of books on Marxism, but almost all are written by academics and zealots for whom it is a near blaspemy to treat him as a figure of flesh and blood.
In the past few years there have been excellent and successful biographies of many eminent Victorians and yet the most influential of them has remained untouched. In this book Francis Wheen, for the first time, presens Marx the man in all his brilliance and frailty - as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman; as an angry agitator who spent much of his adult life in scholarly silence in the British Museum Reading Room; as a gregarious and convivial host who fell out with almost all his friends; as a devoted family man who impregnated his housemaid; as a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink, cigars and jokes.
The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There have been many thousands of books on Marxism, but almost all are written by academics and zealots for whom it is a near blaspemy to treat him as a figure of flesh and blood.
In the past few years there have been excellent and successful biographies of many eminent Victorians and yet the most influential of them has remained untouched. In this book Francis Wheen, for the first time, presens Marx the man in all his brilliance and frailty - as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman; as an angry agitator who spent much of his adult life in scholarly silence in the British Museum Reading Room; as a gregarious and convivial host who fell out with almost all his friends; as a devoted family man who impregnated his housemaid; as a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink, cigars and jokes.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781841151144
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- WH Smith Literary Prize 2000
Om forfatteren
Francis Wheen is a distinguished author and journalist who was voted Columnist of the Year in February 1997 for his weekly column in the Guardian. He has written several books including the highly acclaimed biography of Tom Driberg MP, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize.
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