Frederick Engels: A Biography
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Edition: 3rd rev ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. DJ repaired with tape.
This authoritative biography chronicles the life of Friedrich Engels, the nineteenth-century German philosopher, social scientist, and revolutionary thinker whose intellectual partnership with Karl Marx fundamentally reshaped modern political thought. Frederick Engels: A Biography traces his journey from his origins as the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer in Barmen to his pivotal role in co-authoring The Communist Manifesto and providing the financial and intellectual support that allowed Marx to complete Das Kapital. The work presents Engels not merely as Marx's shadow, but as a formidable theorist in his own right, whose writings on the condition of the working class in England and the origins of the family and private property stand as landmark contributions to socialist theory. Written with scholarly rigor, the biography situates Engels within the turbulent political landscape of nineteenth-century Europe, illustrating how his experiences managing a Manchester factory gave him a ground-level understanding of industrial capitalism that infused his revolutionary writings with rare empirical force.
Author: translated from the Russian by Victor Schneierson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Progress Publishers, Moscow
Genre: Biography
Edition: 3rd rev ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. DJ repaired with tape.
This authoritative biography chronicles the life of Friedrich Engels, the nineteenth-century German philosopher, social scientist, and revolutionary thinker whose intellectual partnership with Karl Marx fundamentally reshaped modern political thought. Frederick Engels: A Biography traces his journey from his origins as the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer in Barmen to his pivotal role in co-authoring The Communist Manifesto and providing the financial and intellectual support that allowed Marx to complete Das Kapital. The work presents Engels not merely as Marx's shadow, but as a formidable theorist in his own right, whose writings on the condition of the working class in England and the origins of the family and private property stand as landmark contributions to socialist theory. Written with scholarly rigor, the biography situates Engels within the turbulent political landscape of nineteenth-century Europe, illustrating how his experiences managing a Manchester factory gave him a ground-level understanding of industrial capitalism that infused his revolutionary writings with rare empirical force.