{"product_id":"the-emergence-of-social-space-isbn-9781844672066","title":"The Emergence of Social Space","description":"The 1870s in France – Rimbaud’s moment, and the subject of this book – is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France’s expansion on a global scale, and, in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune – the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space, as a social fact, is always political and strategic, Kristin Ross has written a book that is at once a history and geography of the Commune’s anarchist culture – its political language and social relations, its values, strategies, and stances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentral to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaud’s poetry. His poems – a common thread running through the book – are one set of documents among many in Ross’s recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud, Paul Lafargue, and the social geographer Élisée Reclus serve as emblematic figures moving within and on the periphery of the Commune; in their resistance to the logic and economy of the capitalist conception of work, in their challenge to work itself as a term of identity, all three posed a threat to the existing order. Ross looks at these and other emancipatory notions as aspects of Communard life, each with an analogous strategy in Rimbaud’s poetry. Applying contemporary theory, to a wealth of little-known archival material, she has written a fresh, persuasive, and original book.“A fascinating cultural history of the Commune.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tariq Ali \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rare example of cultural studies done with zest as well as depth.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristin Ross\u003c\/b\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1988; Verso, 2008); \u003ci\u003eFast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT, 1995); \u003ci\u003eMay 68 and its Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 2002), and \u003ci\u003eCommunal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIdeology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Function of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and the Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233658974437,"sku":"NP9781844672066","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844672066.jpg?v=1767739155","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-emergence-of-social-space-isbn-9781844672066","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}