...prepared to accept that ideology could exercise some constraint over and above economic conditions. 'The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living', he wrote tantalisingly in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, arguing...

...by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating...

...ascension of Emperor Louis Napoleon, Marx's The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) famously observes that "the tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare upon the brain of the living, and just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things,......

...function of "tradition" and its discourse in The Eighteenth Brutnaire are again an apt assessment: "The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something that...

...chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.'31 A nightmare is not exactly a ghost, although it may perhaps be supernatural. And that heavy,...

...by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" I wonder what one's body...

...existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Man will often act and live as though he were apart from his body, as if improving...

...others to assume the authoritative clothes of the past so as to create authority in the present. If "the tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living," it is only by the reawakening of the dead that previous revolutions have legitimated...

...Louis Bonaparte (1852), "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please. . . . The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living" (cit. Hawkes 1996: 92). He continues: "one must not form the narrowminded opinion...

...by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the fast. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Karl Marx Separational CCM, Integrational CCM, Transformational CCM — it has...