Name: The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography
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Author: Marcello Musto
ISBN: 9781503610583

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The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marcello Musto

Translated by

Patrick Camiller

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781503610583

Synopsis "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography"

An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx. In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions--studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India, Ireland, Algeria, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx's life, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life, and that he was a Eurocentric and economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. With The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx's critique of European colonialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx's late manuscripts, notebooks, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. As Marx currently experiences a significant rediscovery, this volume fills a gap in the popularly accepted biography and suggests an innovative reassessment of some of his key concepts.

Marcello Musto

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Marcello Musto es un académico y ensayista italiano especializado en historia del pensamiento socialista y en la obra de Karl Marx. Su investigación se centra en rescatar al pensador alemán desde una perspectiva rigurosa y crítica, alejándose de simplificaciones ideológicas y mostrando la vigencia de sus escritos en la comprensión del mundo contemporáneo. Ejemplo de ello es su libro Karl Marx. Biografía intelectual y política, 1857-1883, donde analiza en detalle los últimos años de Marx, destacando la profundidad de su trabajo más allá de los estereotipos habituales.

Además de su labor como investigador, Musto es profesor universitario y ha impulsado proyectos editoriales que ponen a disposición del público textos inéditos o menos conocidos de Marx y otros pensadores afines. Su obra se caracteriza por un enfoque accesible, sin perder el rigor académico, lo que le ha permitido ser una referencia tanto en círculos especializados como entre lectores interesados en la historia de las ideas políticas y sociales.

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