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Marx on Suicide : Psychosocial Issues - Karl Marx

Marx on Suicide

By: Karl Marx

Hardcover | 30 May 1999

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This provocative volume presents a glimpse of social philosopher Karl Marx's views on the subject of suicide.

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 (1758-1830), a leading French police administrator, economist, and statistician whose extensive memoirs included discussions of suicides, mainly by women, in early-nineteenth-century Paris, Marx's essay was originally presented as a translation of excerpts from Peuchet's memoirs. Because it was considered a translation rather than an original work, and because of its lack of focus on economic class conflict, the essay has not been widely noticed or analyzed as a part of Marx's oeuvre.

As psychiatrist Eric A. Plaut and sociologist Kevin Anderson reveal, however, Marx's "Peuchet on Suicide" is not a straightforward translation, but is in fact an edited version in which Marx omits passages from Peuchet's original, alters language, and adds whole passages of his own, in the process altering the emphasis of the text from a moral and psychological focus to a profoundly social one. Rather than an objective presentation of another critic's work, then, the essay very strongly reflects Marx's own position on the subject.

Marx on Suicide presents Peuchet's essay in the original French, Marx's essay in the original German, and a new translation of Marx's essay in English. Plaut also provides an essay focusing on the psychological aspects of the work, contrasting Marx's thoughts on suicide with those of Freud and Durkheim, and Anderson provides an extensiveintroduction situating this essay in the context of Marx's work, especially that on gender.

This fascinating text casts light not only on its topic but also on its remarkable author and his important works.

Industry Reviews
"This unknown fragment of early Marx provides occasion for three engaging contributions: an introduction to Peuchet's pioneering text on suicide; provocative glosses on issues of self-destructiveness in Marx's biography; and a knowing recovery of Marx's views on gender and the family. Fascinating." Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago" "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 Dupre, Yale University" "Plaut and Anderson's book represents a significant contribution to and expansion of sociologists' understanding of Marx's support for women's liberation. . . . Marx's views regarding women's oppression in the bourgeois family are made poignantly clear." --"Social Pathology"

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Non-FictionPhilosophyHistory of Western PhilosophyPsychologyAbnormal PsychologySociology & AnthropologySociologySociology & Death & Dying

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