Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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, a leading French police administrator, economist, and statistician whose memoirs included discussions of suicides in Paris, Marx's essay is not a straightforward translation of Peuchet but instead an essay reflecting his own strong positions on the subjects addressed in Peuchet's work.
Table of Contents
Marx on suicide in the context of his other writings on alienation and gender / Kevin Anderson -- Marx on suicide in the context of other views of suicide and of his life / Eric A. Plaut -- Peuchet on suicide / Karl Marx -- Peuchet vom Selbstmord / Karl Marx -- Du suicide et de ses causes / Jacques Peuchet.