Conference: 150th Anniversary of the Publication of The Eighteenth Brumaire
An International
Conference to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the publication of
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, was held at the
Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Tulane University, Louisiana,
USA in April 2002. The academic organisers were Terrell Carver, University
of Bristol; Paul Thomas, University of California, Berkeley; and Martyn
P. Thompson, Tulane University. The conference was held under the auspices
of the CSPT, the Murphy Institute of Political Economy (Tulane University),
the Center for Scholars (Tulane) and the Political Science Department
at Tulane. Access to full texts is reserved for CSPT
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Panel 1:
The Eighteenth Brumaire and the Politics of Representation
Chair: Jacqueline Berman |
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| Paul Thomas: Louis Bonaparte’s Two Bodies | Abstract | |
| Jason Myers: From Stage-ist Theories to a Theory of the Stage: ideology in the Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | Text |
| Daniel Conway: A Government of hommes entretenus? tragedy and farce in the Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | |
| Asma Abbas: The Tragic Art of the Historical Materialist: the memory of injury in Marx, Nietzsche and Benjamin | Abstract | Text |
| Panel 2:
The Eighteenth Brumaire and ‘Making History’ Chair:
Paul Thomas |
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| Alan Carling: Egalitarian Materialism | Abstract | Text |
| Tom Hickey: 'Hic Rhodus, hic salta!' The Poetry of the Future: methodological motifs in Marx's politics | Abstract | |
| Geoffrey Harpham: Ideology and Prognostication in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | Text |
| Chad Lavin: Brother, Can You Change a Spare? the agency of theorist in the Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | Text |
| Panel 3:
The Eighteenth Brumaire, Class and State
Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent; Commentator:
Manfred Steger |
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| Bob Jessop: Class, State, and Political Representation in the Eighteenth Brumaire: reflections on class and state formation and the dynamics of political class struggle | Abstract | Text |
| Lawrence Wilde: The Solidarity of Property versus the Solidarity of the Workers: reflections on class in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | Text |
| Amy Wendling: Are All Revolutions Bourgeois?: a reading of section four from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | Abstract | Text |
| Plenary
Session: The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush by
Frances Fox Piven |
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| Panel 4:
The Eighteenth Brumaire and Marxism Chair
Martyn Thompson |
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| Jonathan Wolff: The Eighteenth Brumaire and the 1859 Preface | Abstract | Text |
| Gareth Stedman Jones: Marx on Ancient and Modern Republicanism | Abstract | |
| Fred SchraderI: From Political Representation to Bonapartism: Marx's Readings, Notebooks and Correspondence on France in the 1850s | Abstract | Text |
| William Roberts: Considerations of Strategy: Marx's critique of democrats and 'the party of order' | Abstract | Text |
| Panel 5:
The Eighteenth Brumaire and Postmodern Revisitations
Chair Lyman Tower Sargent; Commentator
John Seery |
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| Terrell Carver: Imagery/Writing, Imagination/Politics: Reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | Text |
| Vincent Geoghegan: ‘Let the Dead Bury their Dead’: Marx, Derrida and Bloch | Abstract | Text |
| Bradley MacDonald: Inaugurating Heterodoxy: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire as Postmodern Text | Abstract | Text |
Panel 6:
The Eighteenth Brumaire and Revolutionary Politics
Chair:
Tony Pereira, Tulane University |
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| Mark Cowling: Marx's Lumpenproletariat and Murray's Underclass: concepts best abandoned? | Abstract | Text |
| Mark Devenney: The Ghost of Prejudice: tradition and revolution in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire | Abstract | |
| Michael Krätke: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: a half-forgotten chapter in Marx's critique of politics | Abstract | |
| Paul Reynolds: Reading the Eighteenth Brumaire as Contemporary Critique | Abstract | |
Closing
Session |
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| 1. Brief Talk & Introduction to Mini-Roundtable Sessions by Terrell Carver | ||
| 2. ‘MEGA2 and the Eighteenth Brumaire’ by Terrell Carver, University of Bristol | ||
| 3. Mini-Roundtable Sessions: Why the Brumaire is a great text | ||
| 4: Rapporteur Reportback | ||