Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire
Subtitle: (post)modern interpretations
By: edited by Mark Cowling and James Martin.
Contributors: Cowling, Mark.; Martin, James, 1968-
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.; France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851.; France -- History -- February Revolution, 1848.; France -- History -- Second Republic, 1848-1852.
Other titles: Eighteenth Brumaire; Marx's '18th Brumaire'
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mark Cowling and James Martin; title: The text. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte / (trans. Terrell Carver) ; Karl Marx; title: 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; title: The Eighteenth Brumaire as history. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte : 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity'? / Roger Price. The appeal of Bonapartism / Geoff Watkins; title: 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; title: 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.