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INCITING READINGS AND READING CITES: VISITS TO MARX'S THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF LOUIS BONAPARTE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2007

DONALD REID
DONALD REID
Affiliation:
Department of History, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Abstract

Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte can be read as a guidebook, but it is also a site of pilgrimage for those seeking to come to terms with the Marxist legacy, from within and from without. This essay examines the reading and citing of The Eighteenth Brumaire by Marxist and non-Marxist political analysts, historians of the Second Republic, and cultural theorists. Invoking this text and claiming to rescue it from the distorted glosses others have given it, readers both confront and evade their own political and intellectual anxieties.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 545 - 570
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2007 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

My thanks to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for support; to Johanna Schoen for research assistance; and to Alice Kaplan, Lloyd Kramer, Tony LaVopa, and Steven Vincent for their thoughtful readings of this essay.