Looking for the Proletariat

Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Problem of Worker Writing

AvStephen Hastings-King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Del 71 i serien Historical Materialism Book Series

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Looking for the Proletariat is a contribution to understanding the implosion of the Marxist Imaginary. The implosion is staged in terms of the first English-language history of the French revolutionary group Socialisme ou Barbarie from 1949 to 1957. It explains why Socialisme ou Barbarie was the only Marxist organization interested by worker experience and how the group’s anti-Leninist position on organization led it to privilege first-person worker narratives in order to understand worker experience and its revolutionary possibilities. Using the only first-person accounts of working-class experience in French industry of the 1950s, the book explores the disintegration of collective investment in the Marxist Imaginary that unfolded at Renault’s Billancourt factory in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution and the contexts that shaped it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-08
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:673 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism Book Series
Antal sidor:346
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004235366

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Stephen Hastings-King, Ph.D. (1999) in Modern European History from Cornell University. He lives by a salt marsh in Essex, Massachusetts where he makes constraints, works with prepared piano and writes entertainments of various kinds.

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"Stephen Hastings-Kings is very precise and punctual in describing the life of the movement, through continuous references to their historical, social, and political context, and an efficient use of their written sources. There are also a bibliography and a clear index, helping the reader to find his way through the book. This work is theoretically well supported by references to Marx and Marxism, and to pivotal authors in phenomenology, especially Husserl and Merleau-Ponty." – Giorgio Baruchello, in: Nordicum-Mediterraneum 10/1 (2015)

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Where Things Start2. Rethinking Revolutionary Theory3. Frame: On Claude Lefort’s ‘L’Expérience Prolétarienne’4. Working-Class Politics at Renault Billancourt5. Looking for the Working Class6. Reading Daniel MothéPostfaceBibliographyIndex