The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto [Hardcover]

Offers the latest contextual and biographical scholarship with innovative interpretations and is supplemented by the first and latest English translations.The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto makes accessible to general readers the latest historical and biographical scholarship critically relevant to this class text in political theory and intellectual history. It provides a fresh translation of the first edition by Terrell Carver and a transcription of the rarely seen first English translation by Helen Macfarlane.The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto makes accessible to general readers the latest historical and biographical scholarship critically relevant to this class text in political theory and intellectual history. It provides a fresh translation of the first edition by Terrell Carver and a transcription of the rarely seen first English translation by Helen Macfarlane.The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism, and socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist and post-colonial readings of the text; and theoretical analyses in relation to political economy, political theory and major concepts of Marxism. The volume includes a fresh translation into English, by Terrell Carver, of the first edition (1848), and an exacting transcription of the rare earliest English translation (1850) by Helen Macfarlane.Editors' introduction Terrell Carver and James Farr; Part I. Political and Biographical Context: 1. Rhineland radicals and '48ers J?rgen Herres; 2. Marx, Engels and other socialisms David Leopold; 3. The rhetoric of the Manifesto James Martin; 4. The Manifesto in Marx and Engels's lifetimes l³(