Marx's 'Eighteenth Brumaire'

Mark Cowling is a Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside. He is co-editor of Marx's 'Eighteenth Brumaire': (Post)Modern Interpretations (Pluto, 2002) and Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond (St. Martin's Press, 2000).

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


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