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ISBN-10: 0810116383
ISBN-13: 9780810116382
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 06/23/1999
Dimensions: 8.49" L, 5.58" W, 0.58" H

Marx on Suicide

Editor: Eric A Plaut
Translator: Kevin Anderson
Translator: Eric A Plaut
Translator: Gabrielle Edgcomb

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Overview

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.

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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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ISBN-10: 0810116383
ISBN-13: 9780810116382
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 06/23/1999
Dimensions: 8.49" L, 5.58" W, 0.58" H
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