Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading…
Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 1844. Karl Marx is 26 years old and exiled in Paris with his wife Jenny. He is in debt and plagued by existential anxieties. When he first meets the slightly younger factory owner’s son Friedrich Engels, he dismisses him as a dandy. But Engels, who has just…
On September 14, 1867, the Börsenblatt des deutschen Buchhandels (the German book trade's bulletin) informed its readers about the publication of Karl Marx’s major opus, Capital, Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital. Exactly 150 years after this historic date, the Goethe-Institut and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to celebrate the anniversary of this influential publication. Preeminent Marxist scholar David Harvey will…
