Introduction / Mark Cowling and James Martin -- The text. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte / (trans. Terrell Carver) ; Karl Marx -- The Eighteenth Brumaire as discourse. Imagery/writing, imagination/politics : reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire / Terrell Carver. Performing politics : class, ideology and discourse in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire / James Martin -- The Eighteenth Brumaire as history. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte : 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity'? / Roger Price. The appeal of Bonapartism / Geoff Watkins -- The autonomy of the state? The political scene and the politics of representation : periodising class struggle and the state in the Eighteenth Brumaire / Bob Jessop. Making sense of the 'relative autonomy' of the state / Paul Wetherly -- The Eighteenth Brumaire, classes and class struggle, then and now. The Eighteenth Brumaire and Thatcherism / Paul Blackledge. Marx's lumpenproletariat and Murray's underclass : concepts best abandoned? / Mark Cowling. Here content transcends phrase : the Eighteenth Brumaire as the key to understanding Marx's critique of utopian socialism / Darren Webb.
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