Terrell Carver. Friedrich Engels. His Life and Thought.

Contents

Map: Germany about 1848

Introduction: Which Engels?

1 – Intellectual Awakening

Early Years

Away from Home

Radicalism

Scepticism

Rationalism

2 – Beginning of a Career

Factory Towns

‘Oswald’

Young Hegelians

Liberalism and Nationalism

Theory and Practice

3 – Autodidact in Philosophy

Correspondent in Berlin

Pamphleteer

Bombardier

Rhenish Radicals

‘The Free’

4 – Manchester Man

Meeting Marx

Class Consciousness

Economic Theory

Anglo-German

‘The Eloquence of Facts’

5 – Personal and Political

Son and Brother

Engels in Love

Widower and Testator

6 – Continental Communist

Class Politics

Rhineland Revolutionary

7 – Emigration

An Independent Writer

Materialism and Science

Conclusion: Politician and Theorist

Guide to Further Reading