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"William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern 'social Hell.' In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism. Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world"

Capitalism --- Politische Theorie. --- Political aspects. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Marx, Karl, --- Inferno (Dante Alighieri). --- Kapital (Marx, Karl). --- Capital. --- Charles Fourier. --- Dante. --- G. A. Cohen. --- Inferno. --- Karl Marx. --- Owenism. --- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. --- Robert Owen. --- Saint-Simonians. --- akrasia. --- anarchy. --- association. --- capital accumulation. --- capitalism. --- capitalist exploitation. --- capitalist mode of production. --- collective force. --- commerce. --- domination. --- expropriation. --- force. --- fraud. --- labor power. --- labor. --- market society. --- money. --- overwork. --- political economy. --- political theory. --- primitive accumulation. --- republicanism. --- separatism. --- social Hell. --- socialism. --- surplus labor. --- treachery. --- wages. --- workers' movement. --- working class.

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In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.

American literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Fugitive slaves --- Law and literature --- African Americans in literature. --- Fugitive slaves in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- History and criticism. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, --- Enslaved persons in literature --- literature, law, slavery, fugitive, property, antebellum, blackface, minstrelsy, race films, appearance, expression, personhood, commodity, commodification, patents, uncle toms cabin, harriet beecher stowe, theft, gift, copyright, nonfiction, possession, chattel, labor, power, agency, wealth, economics, gender, masculinity, femininity.