Jean-Numa Ducange and Anthony Burlaud (eds)
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.
Biographical Note
Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is co-director of the journal Actuel Marx.
Antony Burlaud is a doctoral student in political science at the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne. He has published articles on French politics, Marxism and the history of the French left.
Readership
Academic libraries, specialists in the reception of Marxian and Marxist thought, students and historians of the French left and of French political and intellectual life.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Writing the History of France’s Marxisms
Jean-Numa Ducange and Antony Burlaud
Prologue: Karl Marx’s France
Antony Burlaud
Part 1 The Political Uses of Marx
1 The Socialists’ Marx: The Guesde-Jaurès Moment
Jean-Numa Ducange
2 The Socialists’ Marx: The Centenary of Marx’s Birth: A Challenge for the SFIO
Raymond Huard
3 The Socialists’ Marx: The Blum Era
Thierry Hohl
4 The Socialists’ Marx: From Guy Mollet to the Present
Mathieu Fulla
5 The Communists’ Marx: Karl Marx, Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, 1920–55
Serge Wolikow
6 The Communists’ Marx: A (Now-)Problematic Reference Point, 1956–2017
Anthony Crézégut
7 The Far Left’s Marx: The Politicisation of a Scholarly Marxism
Patrick Massa
Part 2 Translating, Editing, and Publishing Marx
8 How to Translate Marx into French?
Guillaume Fondu and Jean Quétier
9 PCF Publishing Houses and Marx in France, 1920–60: From Politics to Scholarship?
Marie-Cécile Bouju
10 Marx’s Works in the ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’: A Paradoxical Legitimation
Aude Le Moullec-Rieu
11 A Golden Age for Marxist Publishing? The 1960s and 1970s
Julien Hage
Part 3 Marx and the Social Sciences
12 Marxism and Rationalism in the French Social Sciences (1930–60)
Isabelle Gouarné
13 Marx’s Peculiar Fate in French Economic Scholarship
Thierry Pouch
14 Sociology and Marxism
Gérard Mauger
15 Marx and French Historians
François Dosse
16 Marxism and Literary Criticism
Lucile Dumont, Quentin Fondu and Laélia Veron
Part 4 Theoretical Hybridisations
17 Marx and the Marxists, Children of France’s Eighteenth Century?
Stéphanie Roza
18 Marxism and Phenomenology in France
Alexandre Feron
19 The Structuralist Marx
Frédérique Matonti
20 Marx, an Avant-Gardist?
Frédéric Thomas
21 Post-’68 Intellectuals and Marx: A Fascination with ‘Farewells’
Antoine Aubert
22 Feminisms, Marxism, And Their Contentious Links
Sylvie Chaperon and Florence Rochefort
Part 5 Seen from Elsewhere
23 Marx Seen from the Right: When French Economists Discovered Marx’s Capital
Jacqueline Cahen
24 Marx Seen from the Right: Raymond Aron, Marxism and Communism
Gwendal Châton
25 French Catholics and Marxism, from the 1930s to the ‘1968 Moment’
Denis Pelletier
26 Marx in French-Speaking Africa
Françoise Blum
27 Learning Marxism in Paris: Chinese Students in France, 1919–25
Kaixuan Liu and Wenrui Bi
References
Index