Communards and Other Cultural Histories
Essays by Adrian Rifkin
From the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet’s Carmen and Edith Piaf’s song to the culture of gay cruising, this collection of Rifkin's essays map a work beyond any one discipline.
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“For Rifkin himself the essays appear as a ‘series of disrupted and partial projects’. As a body of writing, it is unfinished, the result of procrastination, distraction, and idleness, Rifkin suggests. However, as Edwards observes, the essays reveal recurring themes, points of continuity, and illuminating repetitions.”
—Jeremy Spencer, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books