The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto
The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism and socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist and post-colonial readings of the text; and theoretical analyses in relation to political economy, political theory and major concepts of Marxism. The volume includes a fresh translation into English, by Terrell Carver, of the first edition (1848), and an exacting transcription of the earliest, and rare, English translation by Helen Macfarlane (1850).
Terrell Carver is a professor of political theory at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on Marx, Engels and Marxism since 1975, including texts, translations, commentaries, biographies and political theory. Most recently he published a two-volume study of Marx and Engelss German ideology manuscripts (2014), and he is also the author of The Postmodern Marx (1998).
James Farr is a professor of political science and directs a Chicago-based civic internship program at Northwestern University. He is the coeditor of After Marx (Cambridge University Press, 1984) and, most recently, The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His studies place Marx and Engels in the context of historical debates about method and their reception in the history of political thought.
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The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto
Terrell Carver
University of Bristol
James Farr
Northwestern University
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Contents
Terrell Carver and James Farr
Jrgen Herres
David Leopold
James Martin
Terrell Carver
Jules Townshend
Emanuele Saccarelli
Leo Panitch
Joan C. Tronto
James Farr and Terence Ball
Manfred B. Steger
Robbie Shilliam
Elisabeth Anker
Translated from the first edition by Terrell Carver (1996)
First English translation (abridged) by Helen Macfarlane (1850)
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Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Elisabeth Anker is Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at George Washington University. She works at the intersection of modern political theory and contemporary cultural critique. She is the author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (2014) as well as numerous articles in journals such as Political Theory, Social Research, Contemporary Political Theory, Theory & Event and Politics & Gender.
Terence Ball is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Arizona State University, to which he moved in 1998 after a long career at the University of Minnesota. He has held visiting appointments at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and the University of California, San Diego. He is the coeditor (with Richard Bellamy) of The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought , and for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series he has edited James Mill: Political Writings (1992), The Federalist (2003), Abraham Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches (2013) and (with Joyce Appleby) Thomas Jefferson: Political Writings (1999).
Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Marx, Engels and Marxism, including texts, translations, biographies and commentaries, for more than forty years. His most recent publications include a two-volume definitive study (with Daniel Blank) of the German ideology manuscripts and its Feuerbach chapter by Marx and Engels entitled A Political History of the Editions of Marx and Engelss German ideology Manuscripts and Marx and Engelss German ideology Manuscripts: Presentation and Analysis of the Feuerbach chapter (2014).
James Farr is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Chicago Field Studies at Northwestern University. He coedited (with Terence Ball) After Marx (Cambridge University Press, 1984) and has contributed essays to the Cambridge Companion to Marx (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Engels After Marx (1999) and to scholarly journals on Marx, method and political theory.
Jrgen Herres is a historian working for the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW). In 2012 he published a history of Cologne in the nineteenth century, Das preuische Kln 18151870/71 , and in 2009 he wrote an edition of the writings of Marx and Engels in the era of the first international ( Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels, Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), Abt. 1, Bd. 21: Werke, Artikel, Entwrfe. September 1867 bis Mrz 1871 ). In 2015 he will publish (with Franois Melis) an edition of the writings of Marx and Engels from February to October 1848 (MEGA, Abt. 1, Bd. 7).
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