Karl Marx And World Literature
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A landmark work of literary and intellectual scholarship, Karl Marx and World Literature presents a meticulous examination of the profound role that literature played in the mind and writings of one of history's most influential thinkers. S. S. Prawer chronicles Marx's lifelong engagement with world literature—from Shakespeare and Goethe to Dante and Balzac—illustrating how these literary sources shaped his rhetoric, his imagery, and the very architecture of his arguments. Written with the precision of a philologist and the sweep of a cultural historian, the study uncovers the surprising depth of Marx's aesthetic sensibilities and argues that his major works cannot be fully understood without accounting for their rich literary dimensions. Prawer details the ways in which Marx deployed literary allusion not merely as ornament but as a fundamental mode of thought and persuasion, revealing a thinker as much at home in the world of letters as in the realm of political economy. The result is an authoritative and absorbing reassessment that permanently enriches our understanding of Marx as both a writer and a reader.
Author: S. S. Prawer
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Oxford University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark work of literary and intellectual scholarship, Karl Marx and World Literature presents a meticulous examination of the profound role that literature played in the mind and writings of one of history's most influential thinkers. S. S. Prawer chronicles Marx's lifelong engagement with world literature—from Shakespeare and Goethe to Dante and Balzac—illustrating how these literary sources shaped his rhetoric, his imagery, and the very architecture of his arguments. Written with the precision of a philologist and the sweep of a cultural historian, the study uncovers the surprising depth of Marx's aesthetic sensibilities and argues that his major works cannot be fully understood without accounting for their rich literary dimensions. Prawer details the ways in which Marx deployed literary allusion not merely as ornament but as a fundamental mode of thought and persuasion, revealing a thinker as much at home in the world of letters as in the realm of political economy. The result is an authoritative and absorbing reassessment that permanently enriches our understanding of Marx as both a writer and a reader.