Stathis Kouvelakis: Marx's Critique of the Political: From the Revolutions of 1848 to the Paris Commune

Kouvelakis, Stathis - Marx's Critique of the Political

Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx

by Stathis Kouvelakis
Preface by Fredric Jameson
Translated by G. M. Goshgarian

A remarkable history of the formation of Marxist thought.

Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience.
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions.