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).

• AcknowledgementsContributors1. Introduction by Mark Cowling and James MartinSECTION 1 The Text2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Trans. Terrell Carver) by Karl MarxSECTION 2 The Eighteenth Brumaire as Discourse3. Imagery/Writing, Imagination/Politics: reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire by Terrell Carver4. Performing Politics: class, ideology and discourse in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire by James MartinSECTION 3: The Eighteenth Brumaire as History5. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity’? by Roger Price6. The Appeal of Bonapartism by Geoff WatkinsSECTION 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 Jessop8. Making Sense of the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the State by Paul WetherlySECTION 5 The Eighteenth Brumaire, Classes and Class Struggle, Then and Now9. The Eighteenth Brumaire and Thatcherism by Paul Blackledge10. Marx's Lumpenproletariat and Murray's Underclass: concepts best abandoned? by Mark Cowling11. Here Content Transcends Phrase: the Eighteenth Brumaire as the key to understanding Marx’s critique of utopian socialism by Darren WebbIndex

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