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4%OFFKristin Ross - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune - 9781784780548 - V9781784780548
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Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

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Description for Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune Paperback. .
Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns-internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice-frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
193g
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784780548
SKU
V9781784780548
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About Kristin Ross
Kristin Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of numerous books, including Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture and May '68 and its Afterlives.

Reviews for Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
No work specifies more fully Marx's claim that, the greatest achievement of the Paris Commune was its 'actual working existence.' - Jacobin Ross is the perfect guide for such a journey: few critics are more attuned to how words and images can travel ... [she] has an acute eye for this juxtaposition of the pastoral and the political, ... Read more

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