Communal luxury : the political imaginary of the Paris Commune

Communal luxury : the political imaginary of the Paris Commune / Kristin Ross.

Author/creator	Ross, Kristin author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	London : Verso Books, 2016.
Description	viii, 148 pages ; 20 cm
Subject(s)	Working class--Political activity --France --Paris --History --19th century. Communal living--Political aspects --France --Paris --History --19th century. Political culture--France --Paris --History --19th century. Paris (France)--History --Commune, 1871. Paris (France)--Politics and government --19th century. Paris (France)--Social life and customs --19th century.

Uniform title	Imaginaire de la Commune. English
Contents	Beyond the "cellular regime of nationality" -- Communal luxury -- The literature of the north -- The seeds beneath the snow -- Solidarity.
Abstract	The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reappropriating public and private spaces, reorienting them towards a new function in common. A return to the great 19th century insurrection that most fully instantiated urban insurrection may well be due. Communal Luxury revisits what Marx called the Commune's own working existence, a lived experience of equality in action, focusing particularly on questions of the commune form itself, internationalism, work, art, education and ecology. Ross intertwines the actual words spoken, positions taken, and physical displacements made by the event's participant and its fellow travelers, as well as the bubbling thought it generated. In its original engagement with, but not slavish allegiance to, anarchism and Marxism, the Commune experience is of particular timeliness today.
General note	"First published as L'imaginaire de la Commune, La Fabrique 2015"--Title page verso.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index
Language	Translated from the French.
ISBN	1784780545 (paperback)
ISBN	9781784780548 (paperback)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	DC317 .R5813 2016	✔ Available	Place Hold