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