@article {12192,
	title = {Epic or Tragedy? Karl Marx and Poetic Form in The Communist Manifesto},
	journal = {Filozofia},
	volume = {71},
	number = {4},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {316-327},
	type = {State},
	abstract = {Although <em>The Communist Manifesto</em> of 1848 was clearly not intended as a work of poetry, this article considers the merits of reading it according to the aesthetic criteria of epic poetry and of tragedy respectively. Following a brief treatment of the role of poetry in Karl Marx{\textquoteright}s evolution as a philosopher and critic, the article then speculates that the identification of certain poetic themes in the text can aid our understanding of the <em>Manifesto{\textquoteright}s</em> political meaning, particularly in light of the {\textquotedblleft}dialectical Prometheanism{\textquotedblright} that played such a defining role in Marx{\textquoteright}s intellectual and political universe.},
	keywords = {Dialectics, Epic, Marx, Odyssey, Prometheanism, Prometheus},
	author = {Barker, Jason}
}
