The Victorian encounter with Marx
Subtitle: a study of Ernest Belfort Bax
By: John Cowley.
Publisher: British Academic Press; Distributed by St. Martin's Press in the United States and Canada
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London; New York; new York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Bax, Ernest Belfort, 1854-1926.; Socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Socialism -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: "Ernest Belfort Bax was among the most original and gifted of the first generation of Marxists in Victorian England, and an intimate of luminaries such as William Morris, who considered him the philosopher of the movement. He had first-hand experience of the 19th century tradition of German philosophy which so profoundly influenced Karl Marx, and was a close friend of Engels. Bax was a prolific writer and speaker, the organizer of the Second International, leader of English Social Democracy and a colleague of all the leading European social democratic intellectuals of his time. This biography of Bax sets him in his privileged Victorian middle-class context, analyzes his political and intellectual development, and assesses his achievements and their significance for his own time and later."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-159) and index.