Description
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed translation of one of Marx's most important texts, along with essays discussing its contemporary relevance.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
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