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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829599403321

Autore

Marx Karl <1818-1883.>

Titolo

Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire : (post)modern interpretations / / edited by Mark Cowling and James Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Pluto Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-78371-674-6

1-84964-133-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 267 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CowlingMark

MartinJames <1968->

Disciplina

944.07

Soggetti

France History Coup d'état, 1851

France History February Revolution, 1848

France History Second Republic, 1848-1852

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Mark Cowling and James Martin -- The text. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte / (trans. Terrell Carver) ; Karl Marx -- The Eighteenth Brumaire as discourse. Imagery/writing, imagination/politics : reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire / Terrell Carver. Performing politics : class, ideology and discourse in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire / James Martin -- The Eighteenth Brumaire as history. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte : 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity'? / Roger Price. The appeal of Bonapartism / Geoff Watkins -- The autonomy of the state? The political scene and the politics of representation : periodising class struggle and the state in the Eighteenth Brumaire / Bob Jessop. Making sense of the 'relative autonomy' of the state / Paul Wetherly -- The Eighteenth Brumaire, classes and class struggle, then and now. The Eighteenth Brumaire and Thatcherism / Paul Blackledge. Marx's lumpenproletariat and Murray's underclass : concepts best abandoned? / Mark Cowling. Here content transcends phrase : the Eighteenth Brumaire as the key to understanding Marx's critique of utopian socialism / Darren Webb.

Sommario/riassunto

An acclaimed translation of one of Marx's most important texts, along with essays discussing its contemporary relevance.