Life and works
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 5 May 1818 | Born in Trier, in the Rhine province of Prussia.[2] |
| 1835–1836 | Enters the University of Bonn (October 1835) and transfers the following year to Berlin, where he studies law and philosophy.[2] |
| April 1841 | Takes his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena.[2] |
| October 1842 | Becomes editor of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne.[2] |
| 1843 | Marries Jenny von Westphalen (June) and moves to Paris months later.[2] |
| February 1845 | Expelled from France, settles in Brussels, followed by Engels; from this period date the manuscripts of The German Ideology (1845–46), published posthumously.[2] [1] |
| 1848 | Publishes the Communist Manifesto with Engels, in the year of the European revolutions.[2] [1] |
| August 1849 | Expelled from Paris once more, settles in London, his home for the rest of his life.[3] |
| 1859 | Publishes A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, whose Preface carries the classic formulation of his materialist conception of history.[1] |
| 1864 | Foundation of the International Working Men's Association (First International); neither its founder nor its head, Marx becomes its leading intellectual figure, drafting the inaugural address and the provisional statutes.[4] |
| 1867 | Publishes volume I of Capital (volumes II and III would appear posthumously, in 1885 and 1894, edited by Engels).[5] |
| 14 March 1883 | Dies in London.[2] |
Reception in the COF
Present in 322 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 105 lectures engage him substantially (5 or more mentions). The most engaged lectures:
This section documents what Olavo said and when — never what the philosopher "really" meant. Characterizations are Olavo’s, tied to a lecture by number and date.
| Lecture (aula) | Date | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 2010-01-09 | 65 |
| 548 | — | 61 |
| 395 | — | 45 |
| 171 | 2012-09-08 | 32 |
| 428 | — | 32 |
| 547 | — | 31 |
| 80 | 2010-10-23 | 28 |
| 502 | — | 27 |
| 443 | — | 24 |
| 546 | — | 22 |
| 450 | — | 21 |
| 524 | — | 21 |
| 276 | 2014-12-27 | 20 |
| 333 | — | 19 |
| 577 | — | 19 |
A dash in the date column means the transcription file carries no verified date — an undated file, not an undated lecture. Counts are accent-insensitive, word-boundary matches over the public community transcription corpus.[6] [7]
References
- Karl Marx — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Karl Marx — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Karl Marx — Early years in London — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Karl Marx — Role in the First International — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Das Kapital (work by Marx) — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- COF — community transcriptions of the Curso Online de Filosofia (585 lectures) — Community transcription repository (upstream declares CC0 for the transcription work; the lectures remain the estate's)
- COF em Áudio — lecture audio collection — Internet Archive (community upload)