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Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part 1: The Text

2 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Part 2: The Eighteenth Brumaire as Discourse

3 Imagery/ Writing, Imagination/ Politics: Reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire

4 Performing Politics: Class, Ideology and Discourse in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire

Part 3: The Eighteenth Brumaire as History

5 Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: 'Hero' or 'Grotesque Mediocrity'?

6 The Appeal of Bonapartism

Part 4: The Autonomy of the State?

7 The Political Scene and the Politics of Representation: Periodising Class Struggle and the State i

8 Making Sense of the 'Relative Autonomy' of the State

Part 5: The Eighteenth Brumaire, Classes and Class Struggle, Then and Now

9 The Eighteenth Brumaire and Thatcherism

10 Marx's Lumpenproletariat and Murray's Underclass: Concepts Best Abandoned?

11 Here Content Transcends Phrase: The Eighteenth Brumaire as the Key to Understanding Marx's Critiq

Notes on the Contributors