by Karl Marx edited by Eric A. Plaut translated by Kevin Anderson, Eric A. Plaut and Gabrielle Edgcomb
Northwestern University Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-8101-1638-2 Library of Congress Classification HV6545.M276 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.28
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 1846, two years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto and twenty-one years before the publication of Das Kapital, Karl Marx published an essay titled "Peuchet on Suicide." Based on the writings of Jacques Peuchet, a leading French police administrator, economist, and statistician whose memoirs included discussions of suicides in Paris, Marx's essay is not a straightforward translation of Peuchet but instead an essay reflecting his own strong positions on the subjects addressed in Peuchet's work.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist movement.
Eric A. Plaut is a professor emeritus of Northwestern University Medical School.
Gabrielle Edgcomb was a poet and social critic.
Kevin Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Northern Illinois University.
REVIEWS
"Plaut and Anderson's book represents a significant contribution to and expansion of sociologists' understanding of Marx's support for women's liberation. . . . Marx's views regarding women's oppression in the bourgeois family are made poignantly clear." --Social Pathology
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"This essay, expertly retranslated and intelligently introduced, confirms how far Marx's interests ranged beyond the problems of the proletariat and sheds new light on the young Marx—not the least on the self-aggressiveness of his own emotional life."
—Louis Dupré, Yale University
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"This unknown fragment of early Marx provides occasion for three engaging contributions: an introduction to Peuchet's pioneering text on suicide; provocative glosses on issues of self-destructiveness in Marx's biography; and a knowing recovery of Marx's views on gender and the family. Fascinating."
—Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction
Marx on Suicide in the Context of His Other Writings on Alienation and Gender
Kevin Anderson
Marx on Suicide in the Context of Other Views of Suicide and of His Life
Eric A. Plaut
II. Marx on Suicide
Peuchet on Suicide
Karl Marx
Peuchet: vom Selbstmord
Karl Marx
Du suicide et de ses causes
Jacques Peuchet
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by Karl Marx edited by Eric A. Plaut translated by Kevin Anderson, Eric A. Plaut and Gabrielle Edgcomb
Northwestern University Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-8101-1638-2
In 1846, two years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto and twenty-one years before the publication of Das Kapital, Karl Marx published an essay titled "Peuchet on Suicide." Based on the writings of Jacques Peuchet, a leading French police administrator, economist, and statistician whose memoirs included discussions of suicides in Paris, Marx's essay is not a straightforward translation of Peuchet but instead an essay reflecting his own strong positions on the subjects addressed in Peuchet's work.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist movement.
Eric A. Plaut is a professor emeritus of Northwestern University Medical School.
Gabrielle Edgcomb was a poet and social critic.
Kevin Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Northern Illinois University.
REVIEWS
"Plaut and Anderson's book represents a significant contribution to and expansion of sociologists' understanding of Marx's support for women's liberation. . . . Marx's views regarding women's oppression in the bourgeois family are made poignantly clear." --Social Pathology
— -
"This essay, expertly retranslated and intelligently introduced, confirms how far Marx's interests ranged beyond the problems of the proletariat and sheds new light on the young Marx—not the least on the self-aggressiveness of his own emotional life."
—Louis Dupré, Yale University
— -
"This unknown fragment of early Marx provides occasion for three engaging contributions: an introduction to Peuchet's pioneering text on suicide; provocative glosses on issues of self-destructiveness in Marx's biography; and a knowing recovery of Marx's views on gender and the family. Fascinating."
—Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction
Marx on Suicide in the Context of His Other Writings on Alienation and Gender
Kevin Anderson
Marx on Suicide in the Context of Other Views of Suicide and of His Life
Eric A. Plaut
II. Marx on Suicide
Peuchet on Suicide
Karl Marx
Peuchet: vom Selbstmord
Karl Marx
Du suicide et de ses causes
Jacques Peuchet
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