Despite the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, the spectre of Marx still haunts the French imagination. This is no accident, in a country whose intellectual life and political history have long been marked by his multiple presences.
This volume offers a historical and sociological insight into the way his thought has been received in the French context, from his own lifetime to the present. Analysing Marx’s place and influence in the French intellectual, political and artistic debate – across the political spectrum and even in the French-speaking colonial world – it helps us understand the uses and misuses of an œuvre of paramount importance.
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“The editors have done an excellent job in making the chapters cohere, to show above all how arguments that flamed the French passion for and against Marxism were fierce: this affected the turn of political activism over several generations and across cultural disciplines in academia.”
—Máire Fedelma Cross, French History -
“Anyone curious about the shadow Marx casts across French political and intellectual life should give Marx, A French Passion a read.”
—Erwan Moysan, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Other books edited by Antony Burlaud and Jean-Numa Ducange, translated by David Broder
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The French Revolution and Social Democracy
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Marx and Latin America
by José Aricó