Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism 2020033880, 9781501351112, 9781501351129, 9781501351136

Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright Page
Series Preface
Contents
Introduction: Modernist Marx, Marxist Modernism
Notes
Part 1: Conceptualizing Marx
Chapter 1: Greek Ideology and Modern Politics in Marx’s First Works
The Dissertation: Epicurus’ Carnival and Abstract-individual Self-Consciousness
Greek Enlightenment and Greek Ideology: In the Garden of Meteors
Living in Iron Times
The End of the Carnival: Marxist Cynica
Conclusion: Universal Chains and Proletarian Genericity
Notes
Chapter 2: Before the Manifesto: Märchen and the Impulse to Exorcism
Notes
Chapter 3: The Communist Manifesto and the Exhumation of Literature
Marx and Dante
Marx and Shakespeare
Marx the Epicurean
Notes
Chapter 4: On France: Revolutions and Communes
Notes
Chapter 5: Jupiter against the Lightning-Rod: Literary Form in the Grundrisse
Prehistory of Modernism’s Communism
A Brief Drama of Potential Combatants
Not-labor Time and the Collective Literary Program
Notes
Chapter 6: The Voices of Capital: Poetics of Critique beyond Sentiment and Cynicism
The Commodity Form: Between Sentiment and Cynicism
On History, the Darstellungsweise, and Double-voiced Discourse
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7: The Dialectics of Utopia: Critique of the Gotha Program
Notes
Chapter 8: Posthumous Publications: Capitalism’s Circuits and Reading for Totality
Volume Two: The Circuits of Capital and Production of Crisis
Volume Three: The Unseen, the Natural, and the Necessity of Interpretation
Ground Rent and Reading Resources
Notes
Part 2: Marx in Modernism
Chapter 9: Marx in the Modernist Novel
Notes
Chapter 10: Marx and Modernist Poetry
Niedecker’s Depression Lyrics
Hughes’ ‘Song of the Revolution’
Rukeyser’s Elegy for Labor
Notes
Chapter 11: Marx and Cinema
Notes
Chapter 12: Theatrical Proletarians
A Kind of Work-related Accident
Worthless, Superfluous, Even Bothersome
There Ought To be More Like Her
Removed at a Single Blow
Notes
Chapter 13: Marx, Music, Modernism
Notes
Chapter 14: Constructing Socialism: Marxism, Modernism, and Architecture
Notes
Chapter 15: Marx and Popular Modernism
Splinters
The Infernal Dream of Animation
Modernist-Marxist Fairy Tales
Notes
Part 3: Glossary of Key Terms
Chapter 16: The Commodity
Notes
Chapter 17: Labor
Notes
Chapter 18: Value
Notes
Chapter 19: Money
Notes
Chapter 20: The General Formula of Capital
Chapter 21: Class
Notes
Chapter 22: Technology
Notes
Chapter 23: Family
Notes
Chapter 24: Ideology
Notes
Chapter 25: Alienation
Notes
Chapter 26: Materialism
Notes
Chapter 27: Colonization
Notes
Chapter 28: Nature
Notes
Chapter 29: Revolution
Notes
Chapter 30: Communism
Notes
Chapter 31: Utopia
Notes
Contributors
Index