Table of Contents

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
Index

About the Author

Mark Cowling is a Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside. His previous publications include The Communist Manifesto: New Interpretations (editor, Edinburgh University Press, 1998), Date Rape and Consent (Ashgate, 1998) and Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond (ed. with Paul Reynolds, St. Martin's Press, 2000). James Martin lectures in politics at Goldsmiths College and is the author of Gramsci's Political Analysis (Palgrave, 1998) and editor of Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers (Routledge, 2001).

Reviews

The publishers have done a service to the socialist movement be making Terrell Carver's modern translation of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte available to English speakers...Studing The Eighteenth Brumaire is important for all socialists.' Marxist Review