SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jenny Von Westphalen, Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
4 Jan 2016
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Born in 1818 in prussia (modern-day germany), family of jewish background, father a lawyer, well-off family. Spent a lot of time listening to his father and his father"s intellectual friends, heard them talking about egalitarian ideas/views, they emphasized importance of equality and freedom. He internalized this and he emphasized this in his own works. He also developed optimistic views about future/nature of humanity, progress of civilization, he thought we could improve and develop a better society. Enrolled as a law student at university of bonne in 1835 (father wanted him to follow his footsteps). He spent a lot of his time drinking, getting into fights, got arrested for rowdy behaviour instead of studying lol. His father was disappointed and wanted to keep closer tabs on him/his behaviour, so for second year marx transferred to. Started taking philosophy courses and became interested in hegel. He finished his undergraduate and did grad work in philosophy, and got a phd in.
