How to Organize Emancipation: The Paris Commune

Frank Ruda

doi:10.1353/ncf.2021.0005

How to Organize Emancipation: The Paris Commune

Frank Ruda (Lead / Corresponding author)

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This article investigates the Paris Commune following Marx’s comment that it is the form of collective emancipation at last discovered. It argues that the Paris Commune should therefore be read as establishing and enacting a different use of form, a form of practice that correlates to a practice of form which suspends all transcendental guarantee and insurances: the Commune is therefore at the same time eminently historical, but becomes immediately contemporary to anyone thinking through emancipation. The article thus closes by proposing a concrete point of orientation that can be derived from thinking with the Communards (for) today.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	206-217
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Volume	49
Issue number	3-4
Early online date	9 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2021.0005
Publication status	Published - 2021

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