| Popis: |
These concluding reflections return to the originary conjunction of imagination with vocation. At sixteen young Friedrich published a novella, in German translation from a French version of the English text. The author was Caroline Norton, then a leading campaigner to reform factory work and eliminate child labor. She was also the leading figure in an internationally reported scandal in which the then prime minister was named. It is unlikely that Engels chose, or was given, this text in ignorance of the liberalizing politics it portended. At twenty-four, during Engels’s final months back home, his correspondence with Marx is deferential, though he himself at the time was much more widely published, far more experienced as an activist, and intellectually well in advance as a student and critic of political economy and industrial capitalism. Engels’s new, subordinating life began by taking Marx to Manchester for a “study trip.” |
