Jerrold Seigel is Professor of History at New York University and author of Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism (1968) and Bohemian Paris (1986).
“This impressive study provides a fresh and sensitive portrait of
Marx that has not been achieved by many previous biographers and
historians with narrower perspectives. . . . [Seigel] explains how
experiences of childhood and early indoctrination in Hegelian
philosophy influenced Marx throughout his life, and how these early
conflicts were later reflected in his vacillation between ‘theory
and reality, thought and the world.’ By providing generous portions
of background history, Seigel shows how Marx was very much a
product of his times and also provides an answer to the problem of
‘old Marx versus young Marx.’ This book will provide new
interpretations for Marxian scholars, and it is lucidly enough
written to be consistently absorbing for the
nonspecialist.”—Publishers Weekly
“To write a book covering the whole spectrum of Marx's life and
thought and hope it to be a significantly new contribution is
indeed ambitious. Yet Professor Seigel has achieved just
that.”—David McLellan
“Seigel brings us, in many crucial ways, closer to Marx than we
have ever been. He captures the desperate intensity and volatility
of Marx's inner life, the exhausting anxieties that kept his mind
inexhaustibly alive.”—The Nation
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