Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism

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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