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

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. Introduction by Mark Cowling and James Martin
SECTION 1 The Text
2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Trans. Terrell Carver) by Karl Marx
SECTION 2 The Eighteenth Brumaire as Discourse
3. Imagery/Writing, Imagination/Politics: reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire by Terrell Carver
4. Performing Politics: class, ideology and discourse in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire by James Martin
SECTION 3: The Eighteenth Brumaire as History
5. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity’? by Roger Price
6. The Appeal of Bonapartism by Geoff Watkins
SECTION 4 The Autonomy of the State?
7. The Political Scene and the Politics of Representation: periodising class struggle and the state in the Eighteenth Brumaire by Bob Jessop
8. Making Sense of the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the State by Paul Wetherly
SECTION 5 The Eighteenth Brumaire, Classes and Class Struggle, Then and Now
9. The Eighteenth Brumaire and Thatcherism by Paul Blackledge
10. Marx's Lumpenproletariat and Murray's Underclass: concepts best abandoned? by Mark Cowling
11. Here Content Transcends Phrase: the Eighteenth Brumaire as the key to understanding Marx’s critique of utopian socialism
by Darren Webb
Index

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      Publisher Pluto Press
      Published 20 September 2002
      ISBN-13 9780745318301
      978-0745318301
      ISBN-10 0745318304
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      Social and political philosophy

      Description

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

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Contributors
      1. Introduction by Mark Cowling and James Martin
      SECTION 1 The Text
      2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Trans. Terrell Carver) by Karl Marx
      SECTION 2 The Eighteenth Brumaire as Discourse
      3. Imagery/Writing, Imagination/Politics: reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire by Terrell Carver
      4. Performing Politics: class, ideology and discourse in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire by James Martin
      SECTION 3: The Eighteenth Brumaire as History
      5. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity’? by Roger Price
      6. The Appeal of Bonapartism by Geoff Watkins
      SECTION 4 The Autonomy of the State?
      7. The Political Scene and the Politics of Representation: periodising class struggle and the state in the Eighteenth Brumaire by Bob Jessop
      8. Making Sense of the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the State by Paul Wetherly
      SECTION 5 The Eighteenth Brumaire, Classes and Class Struggle, Then and Now
      9. The Eighteenth Brumaire and Thatcherism by Paul Blackledge
      10. Marx's Lumpenproletariat and Murray's Underclass: concepts best abandoned? by Mark Cowling
      11. Here Content Transcends Phrase: the Eighteenth Brumaire as the key to understanding Marx’s critique of utopian socialism
      by Darren Webb
      Index

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