Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work (Volume I: 1818-1841)

Karl Marx & the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx & the Development of His Work, Volume 1: 1818-1841
Contents
Preface
On Citation
Introduction. Why Marx?
A Journey by Sea & a Book
“Marx” as Cipher
What Is It All About?
Chapter 1: Forgotten Youth
What We Know for Sure
Trier between Idyll & Pauperism
Trier’s History & Cultural Life
Social Relations
Karl Marx’s Parents
The Position of Jews in the Eighteenth & at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
The Family & Education of Heinrich Marx
Henriette Presburg, the Mother
Heinrich Marx’s Memoranda
Baptism
Professional Success & Social Recognition
From the Promise of a Constitution through the July Revolution to the Storming of the Main Police Station in Frankfurt: Political Conditions in Germany
The Trier Casino Affair of 1834 & Heinrich Marx’s Political Views
The Fatherly Friend; Johann Ludwig von Westphalen
Family Background
Profession & Political Attitudes
Karl Marx at Gymnasium
The Prussian Education Reform
The Trier Gymnasium & Its Teachers
The Abitur Examination Papers: First Glimpses of the Young Marx’s Intellectual Development
Bonds & Impetuses
Family Life
Judaism
Friends from Youth
Writing Poetry, Fencing, Dancing
Experiences & Views of a Gymnasium Graduate
Chapter 2: Awakenking & First Crisis
Interlude in Bonn
Student Life in the Early Nineteenth Century
The University & Studies in Bonn
The Literature Circle
Tavern Life & an Alleged Duel
Jenny von Westphalen
Childhood & Youth
Engagement to Karl
The First Year in Berlin
The City & the Young Karl’s Rounds
Hegel & the University of Berlin
Savigny & Gans
Juridical & Non-Juridical Studies of Young Marx
Literary Attempts
The First Intellectual Crisis: The Turn Away from Poetry & Transition to Hegel’s Philosophy
Why Did Marx Give Up His Attempts at Poetry?
Hegel’s Critique of the Romantics & Marx’s Transition to Hegel’s Philosophy
Conflicts with Jenny & Marx’s Father
Chapter 3: The Philosopht of Religion, the Beginnings of Young Hegelianism, & Marx's Dissertation Projects, 1838–1841
Marx's Life in Berlin, 1838–41
Edgar von Westphalen & Werner von Veltheim
Marx’s Relationship with Jenny & with His Mother
Financial Problems
Friends from the “Doctorklubb”: Rutenberg, Köppen, Bauer
Political Developments in Prussia
The Critique of Religion in the Eighteenth & Early Nineteenth Century
“Natural Theology” & the Critique of Faith in Revelation
Reimarus, Lessing, & the “Fragments Controversy”
Kant’s Separation of Belief & Knowledge
Supernaturalism, Theological Rationalism, & Schleiermacher’s Theology of Feeling
Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion & the Debates of the 1830s
The Relation between Religion & Philosophy in Hegel’s Work
David Friedrich Strauß & the Split of the Hegelian School
The Beginnings of Young Hegelianism
Arnold Ruge & the Founding of the Hallische Jahrbücher
The Dispute between Leo & Ruge
The Expansion of the Combat Zone: Ludwig Feuerbach’s First Critiques of Hegel, the Manifesto Against Romanticism, & the First Open Critique of Prussia
Interim Consideration: Is the Juxtaposition of Old Hegelianism & Young Hegelianism Merely a Construct in the History of Philosophy?
Bauer & Marx
Bruno Bauer’s Speculative Theology (1834–1839)
Atheism & Critique of the Gospels (1839–1841)
The Religious Development & Studies in the Philosophy of Religion of the Young Marx
Marx’s Friendship with Bauer
Marx’s Dissertation Projects
Marx’s Studies in the History of Philosophy & His First Dissertation Project (1839–1840)
The Dissertation Manuscript
Atoms & Self-Consciousness
God & Immortality
Political-Philosophical Determination of Position
Why Jena?
Appendix. How Is Biographical Writing Possible Today? On the Methodology of a Marx Biography
Critique of Traditional Biography
The Debate Concerning “New Biography"
Consequences for a Biography of Marx
Person & Society
Life & Work, Meanings, & Scopes of Action
Form of Presentation, Ruptures, & Contingencies of the Life Story
Historical Exactness & the Perspectivist Character of Every Biography
Notes
Glossary of Names
Index