Karl Marx

<p> Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism Karl Marx's ideas at least in part are back in vogue. He is often invoked yet often misunderstood. In this award-winning biography Rolf Hosfeld offers a new transparent and critical view of Marx's turbulent life. Linking the contradictory politician and revolutionary to his work-his errors and misjudgments as well as his pioneering ideas-Hosfeld presents a vivid account of Marx's life between Trier and London. At the same time he renders accessible Marx's complex work one of the world's most important contributions to the history of ideas.</p>