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Author:   Leigh Claire La Berge
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781478016618

ISBN 10:   1478016612
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   03 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Cat out of the Bag  1 Part I. Menace and Menagerie: The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800–1500 1. Lion Kings  25 Intermezzo 1. The Lion-Cat Dialectic  53 2. The Devil’s Cats  58 Part II. The Feline Call to Freedom: Slavery and Revolution in the Age of Empire, 1500–1800 3. Divine Lynxes  95 Intermezzo 2. The Tiger-Tyger Dialectic  125 4. Revolutionary Tigers  129 Part III. Our Dumb Beasts: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its Appropriation of Cats, 1800–1900 5. Wildcats  177 Intermezzo 3. The Cat-Mouse Dialectic  207 6. Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile  212 Part IV. Every Paw Can Be a Claw: Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions Against Capitalism, 1900–2000 7. Sabo-Tabbies  251 Intermezzo 4. The Cat-Comrade Dialectic  288 8. Black Panthers  294 Epilogue. Pussy Cats  329 Notes  339 Bibliography  363 Index  383  

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Who knew that following cats could open up history and enliven Marxism? This delightful archive of the feline in class struggle reminds us that cats are our comrades. Hand in paw, we have a world to win! --Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere, a Marxist Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might do. --Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere, a Marxist Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might do. --Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

Author Information

Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art, also published by Duke University Press.

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