Peuchet: On Suicide

Abstract

Polish edition of Karl Marx’s article from 1846 published originally in the journal Gesellschaftsspiegel. The article was a translation of a selected fragments from the memoirs by Jacques Peuchet, a former archive-keeper of the Paris police prefecture describing four cases of suicide together with a commentary by Peuchet on the social causes of suicide. Marx made important changes to the text of the translation regarding the original source material and also included his introductory commentary.