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SUMMARY:'Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion': half-day Colloquium - Gareth 
 Stedman Jones (Queen Mary)\, Peter Ghosh (Oxford)\, Duncan Kelly (Cambridg
 e)\, David Leopold (Oxford)\, Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge Centre for Political Thought is hosting a colloq
 uium on the important new biography\, _Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion_ 
 (Allen Lane/Harvard University Press) by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones. I
 t will be held in the Old Library\, Pembroke College from 3pm until 6pm on
  Friday 10 February.\n\n_Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion_ is both a biog
 raphy of Marx and a portrait of his time\, situating him in the world of t
 he nineteenth century: an era dominated by new ideas about God\, human nat
 ure\, 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 o
 f his milieu and trajectory\, and to assess the impact of ways of seeing t
 he world developed by Kant\, Hegel\, Feuerbach\, Ricardo\, Saint-Simon and
  other thinkers. The book shows how Marx interpreted these philosophies in
 to ideas that would have an overwhelming impact on the following century.\
 n\nGareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary
  University of London and Fellow of King's College\, Cambridge. Before joi
 ning Queen Mary in 2010\, he was Professor of the History of Political Tho
 ught 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 P
 enguin edition of _The Communist Manifesto_. He was also a founding editor
  of _History Workshop Journal_\, and is currently Director of the Centre f
 or History and Economics\, Cambridge.\n\nAttendance is free\, but as place
 s are limited\, registration is essential. Please book a place here: https
 ://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/karl-marx-greatness-and-illusion-half-day-colloq
 uium-tickets-30542550591\n\nDirections: the McCrum Lecture Theatre is just
  off Bene't street\, next to The Eagle Pub. See here: https://goo.gl/MxZA4
 W\n\nProgramme\n\n3.00: Introduction\n\n3.10: Peter Ghosh (History\, Oxfor
 d)\n3.35: Duncan Kelly (POLIS\, Cambridge)\n4.00: Q&A\nChair: Waseem Yaqoo
 b (History\, Cambridge)\n\n4.40: David Leopold (Politics\, Oxford)\n5.05: 
 Sylvana Tomaselli (History\, Cambridge)\n5.30: Q&A\nChair: Christopher Mec
 kstroth (History\, Cambridge)\n\n6.00 - 6.30: Wine reception\n\n\nThe coll
 oquium is sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought.
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub)\, Bene't St
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