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‘A sense of limits is the better part of valour’

Jacques-Alain Miller

Knitting together social and economic history with literary criticism and cultural theory

Revolution keyword-floods charts the paradoxes produced byThis book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth century revolutions by composing a constellation of dialectical images: Marxs locomotives of history, Alexandra Kollontais sexually liberated bodies, Lenins mummified body, Auguste Blanquis barricades and red flags, the Paris Communes demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by