Marx, A French Passion

Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is co-director of the journal Actuel Marx. Antony Burlaud is a doctoral student in political science at the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne. He has published articles on French politics, Marxism and the history of the French left.

Introduction: Writing the History of France’s Marxisms

 Jean-Numa Ducange and Antony Burlaud


Prologue: Karl Marx’s France

 Antony Burlaud


Part 1 The Political Uses of Marx




1 The Socialists’ Marx: The Guesde-Jaurès Moment

 Jean-Numa Ducange


2 The Socialists’ Marx: The Centenary of Marx’s Birth: A Challenge for the SFIO

 Raymond Huard


3 The Socialists’ Marx: The Blum Era

 Thierry Hohl


4 The Socialists’ Marx: From Guy Mollet to the Present

 Mathieu Fulla


5 The Communists’ Marx: Karl Marx, Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, 1920–55

 Serge Wolikow


6 The Communists’ Marx: A (Now-)Problematic Reference Point, 1956–2017

 Anthony Crézégut


7 The Far Left’s Marx: The Politicisation of a Scholarly Marxism

 Patrick Massa


Part 2 Translating, Editing, and Publishing Marx




8 How to Translate Marx into French?

 Guillaume Fondu and Jean Quétier


9 PCF Publishing Houses and Marx in France, 1920–60: From Politics to Scholarship?

 Marie-Cécile Bouju


10 Marx’s Works in the ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’: A Paradoxical Legitimation

 Aude Le Moullec-Rieu


11 A Golden Age for Marxist Publishing? The 1960s and 1970s

 Julien Hage


Part 3 Marx and the Social Sciences




12 Marxism and Rationalism in the French Social Sciences (1930–60)

 Isabelle Gouarné


13 Marx’s Peculiar Fate in French Economic Scholarship

 Thierry Pouch


14 Sociology and Marxism

 Gérard Mauger


15 Marx and French Historians

 François Dosse


16 Marxism and Literary Criticism

 Lucile Dumont, Quentin Fondu and Laélia Veron


Part 4 Theoretical Hybridisations




17 Marx and the Marxists, Children of France’s Eighteenth Century?

 Stéphanie Roza


18 Marxism and Phenomenology in France

 Alexandre Feron


19 The Structuralist Marx

 Frédérique Matonti


20 Marx, an Avant-Gardist?

 Frédéric Thomas


21 Post-’68 Intellectuals and Marx: A Fascination with ‘Farewells’

 Antoine Aubert


22 Feminisms, Marxism, And Their Contentious Links

 Sylvie Chaperon and Florence Rochefort


Part 5 Seen from Elsewhere




23 Marx Seen from the Right: When French Economists Discovered Marx’s Capital

 Jacqueline Cahen


24 Marx Seen from the Right: Raymond Aron, Marxism and Communism

 Gwendal Châton


25 French Catholics and Marxism, from the 1930s to the ‘1968 Moment’

 Denis Pelletier


26 Marx in French-Speaking Africa

 Françoise Blum


27 Learning Marxism in Paris: Chinese Students in France, 1919–25

 Kaixuan Liu and Wenrui Bi


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