Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx. Man of the 19th century (Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-century Life), Paris, Piranha, 2017 (2013 for the original edition), 576 pages, EUR 26,50.
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a report by Jean-Guillaume Lanuque Jonathan Sperber, British university specialising in the 19th century study, attacked a major figure of thought and recent history, Karl Marx. But he wanted to do so on the basis of a simple principle: treat his subject as a man rooted in his time, not as a ‘prophet’ or the ‘Fourrier des totalitariisms of the 20th century’; an individual of his time, looking back above all and taking them back...