Communal luxury
Subtitle: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune
By: Kristin Ross
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781784780548
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Political culture; Communal living; Working class; Political activity; History
Work titles: Imaginaire de la Commune
Description: "Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns--internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice--frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection's survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris. The Paris Commune was a laboratory of political invention, important simply and above all for, as Marx reminds us, its own 'working existence.' Communal Luxury allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of an extraordinary experiment"--Publisher's description
Notes: "First published as L'imaginaire de la Commune, La Fabrique 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Beyond the "cellular regime of nationality"; title: Communal luxury; title: The literature of the north; title: The seeds beneath the snow; title: Solidarity.