In his ground-breaking study, Patrick Eiden-Offe gives romantic anti-capitalism its long-repressed due and liberates the social and literary history of the 19th century from one-dimensional perspectives.
In his ground-breaking study, Patrick Eiden-Offe gives romantic anti-capitalism its long-repressed due and liberates the social and literary history of the 19th century from one-dimensional perspectives.
Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ph.D. (1971), is a permanent research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin. He has published three books in German, Das Reich der Demokratie. Hermann Brochs "Der Tod des Vergil" (Fink, 2011), Die Poesie der Klasse (Matthes & Seitz, 2017) and Hegels Logik Lesen (Matthes & Seitz, 2021), and is currently writing an intellectual biography of Georg Lukács.
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Translator's Note Introduction 1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation 2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject 3 Romantic Anti-capitalism 4 Historiography of Rescue 5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure 6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz 7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement 1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck's The Young Master Carpenter 2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers' Movement: Wilhelm Weitling 3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 'We? Tricky Question!' on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals 1 Negations: 'Bourgeois' and 'Intellectual Prolatarians' 2 Ascension: 'We' Want to Be Bürger 3 Activation: What 'We' Should Be 4 Affirmation: 'We' Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics 1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger 2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory 1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London 2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist 3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke's 'Rich and Poor' 4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian 5 Relentlessness 6 Mystères - Misère 7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs 8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom 1 Allegories of Class: 'Steam King' and 'White Slaves' 2 Point of Comparison: Weitling's 'Politics of Slavery' 3 The 'Semblance of Liberty' and Real Slavery: Engels 4 Class Slavery 5 Why 'White Slaves'? 6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique 7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the 'Labouring Poor' 1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm's White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People 2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage 3 The Reporter in the Field: 'The Great Towns' 7 Class in Struggle 1 Witches' Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck 2 The Witches' Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne 3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling 4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm 5 Rescuing the Rebels 6 Revenge and Class 7 The Machine Breakers 8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? 9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth's Fragment of a Novel 10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers' Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic 'Anti-capitalism' from Above Bibliography Index
Translator's Note Introduction 1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation 2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject 3 Romantic Anti-capitalism 4 Historiography of Rescue 5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure 6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz 7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement 1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck's The Young Master Carpenter 2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers' Movement: Wilhelm Weitling 3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 'We? Tricky Question!' on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals 1 Negations: 'Bourgeois' and 'Intellectual Prolatarians' 2 Ascension: 'We' Want to Be Bürger 3 Activation: What 'We' Should Be 4 Affirmation: 'We' Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics 1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger 2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory 1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London 2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist 3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke's 'Rich and Poor' 4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian 5 Relentlessness 6 Mystères - Misère 7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs 8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom 1 Allegories of Class: 'Steam King' and 'White Slaves' 2 Point of Comparison: Weitling's 'Politics of Slavery' 3 The 'Semblance of Liberty' and Real Slavery: Engels 4 Class Slavery 5 Why 'White Slaves'? 6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique 7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the 'Labouring Poor' 1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm's White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People 2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage 3 The Reporter in the Field: 'The Great Towns' 7 Class in Struggle 1 Witches' Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck 2 The Witches' Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne 3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling 4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm 5 Rescuing the Rebels 6 Revenge and Class 7 The Machine Breakers 8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? 9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth's Fragment of a Novel 10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers' Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic 'Anti-capitalism' from Above Bibliography Index
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