Communal Luxury - The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

Zusatztext 50167280 Informationen zum Autor Kristin Ross was born in State College, Pennsylvania in 1953. She attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received a PhD in French Literature from Yale in 1981. She is the author of a number of books on modern French politics and culture, all of which have been widely translated: The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Minnesota, 1988; Verso, 2008); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT, 1995); May 68 and its Afterlives (Chicago, 2002), and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015). She has also translated works by Jacques Rancière and by the militant collective, Mauvaise Troupe. She lives in Stone Ridge, New York and Paris. Klappentext Translation of: L'imaginaire de la Commune. Zusammenfassung Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Ross
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781784780548
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-054-8
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Europe / France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political activism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Political activism / Political engagement, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions