The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton

The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

Karl Marxâ€™s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 â€œArab Spring.â€
Simultaneously extolled in its day as truth incarnate and the inspiration for a life-and-death struggle for humankindâ€™s liberation and condemned as the vilest of propaganda on behalf of despotism, the Communist Manifesto continues to be the most potent literary symbol of the struggle over the form and content of freedom.

This revised Norton Critical Edition provides students with the best documentation and scholarship with which to appreciate the Communist Manifestoâ€™s complexities, context, and legacy of controversy. The Second Edition interprets the Manifesto in relation to the dominance of globalized financial capital, socialist feminist critique, postmodernism, and the fragmentation/transformation of the global working class in the twenty-first century.

The volume includes a carefully annotated text of the Communist Manifesto, the editorâ€™s historical and philosophical introduction, and a chronology of historical events surrounding publication of the Manifesto. Fifteen seminal interpretationsâ€•eight of them new to the Second Editionâ€•have been collected. New contributions include Lucien Laurat on the Manifestoâ€™s sociological standpoint as adapted to the modernization of the mid-twentieth century; Wendy Lynne Leeâ€™s assessment of the Manifestoâ€™s key concepts, metaphors, and arguments from a radical-feminist perspective; the article that served as the basis for Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negriâ€™s important postmodernist adaptation of the Manifesto for twenty-first century conditions; and noteworthy responses to Hardt and Negriâ€™s arguments by Slavoj Zizek and by Taki Fotopoulos and Alexandros Gezerlis.

A Selected Bibliography and Index are also included.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393935608
ReleaseDate 2012-08-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393935608

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780393935608
ReleaseDate	2012-08-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393935608

The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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