'Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion': half-day Colloquium

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• Gareth Stedman Jones (Queen Mary), Peter Ghosh (Oxford), Duncan Kelly (Cambridge), David Leopold (Oxford), Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)
• Friday 10 February 2017, 15:00-18:00
• McCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub), Bene't St.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Waseem Yaqoob.

The Cambridge Centre for Political Thought is hosting a colloquium on the important new biography, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Allen Lane/Harvard University Press) by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones. It will be held in the Old Library, Pembroke College from 3pm until 6pm on Friday 10 February.

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is both a biography of Marx and a portrait of his time, situating him in the world of the nineteenth century: an era dominated by new ideas about God, human nature, imperialism, political systems, and notions of the future. Stedman Jones places Marx amidst hopes and fears stirred by the French Revolution and the industrial transformation of England. Examining both Marx’s views and those of his interlocutors, the book gives us new ways to conceive of his milieu and trajectory, and to assess the impact of ways of seeing the world developed by Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Ricardo, Saint-Simon and other thinkers. The book shows how Marx interpreted these philosophies into ideas that would have an overwhelming impact on the following century.

Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Before joining Queen Mary in 2010, he was Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Outcast London, Languages of Class and An End to Poverty? as well as editor of the Penguin edition of The Communist Manifesto. He was also a founding editor of History Workshop Journal, and is currently Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge.

Attendance is free, but as places are limited, registration is essential. Please book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/karl-marx-greatness-and-illusion-half-day-colloquium-tickets-30542550591

Directions: the McCrum Lecture Theatre is just off Bene’t street, next to The Eagle Pub. See here: https://goo.gl/MxZA4W

Programme

3.00: Introduction

3.10: Peter Ghosh (History, Oxford) 3.35: Duncan Kelly (POLIS, Cambridge) 4.00: Q&A Chair: Waseem Yaqoob (History, Cambridge)

4.40: David Leopold (Politics, Oxford) 5.05: Sylvana Tomaselli (History, Cambridge) 5.30: Q&A Chair: Christopher Meckstroth (History, Cambridge)

6.00 – 6.30: Wine reception

The colloquium is sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought series.

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