Karl Marx:Greatness and Illusion
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1505
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN
- 9780241269107
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This biography of Marx situates both his life and his thought in their original context. His activities and those of his contemporaries are situated in a 19th-century landscape, in which his writings, whether political or theoretical are treated as interventions in pre-existing fields of discourse. This work required extended (over 8 years) research in primary sources in several languages (mostly German and French), much philosophical in nature, and insertion of this material into a complex and Europe-wide (sometimes American) context. This is not a biography, but an intellectual biography embedded in thick context over a complicated and long life-time.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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