It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form.
In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira
expand our understanding of the history of social and political
scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and
constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance,
appropriation, and reception over time. Examining the evolving form
of classic works of social and political thought, including W. E.
B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, G. H. Mead's Mind, Self, and
Society, and Karl Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,
Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira show that making these books
involved many hands. They explore what publishers, editors,
translators, and commentators accomplish by offering the reading
public new versions of the works under consideration, examine
debates about the intended meaning of the works and discussions
over their present relevance, and elucidate the various ways in
which content and material form are interwoven. In doing so,
Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira characterize the editorial
process as a meaning-producing action involving both collaboration
and an ongoing battle for the importance of the book form to a
work's disciplinary belonging, ideological positioning, and
political significance. Theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly
researched, The Politics of the Book radically changes our
understanding of what doing social and political theory-and its
history-implies. It will be welcomed by scholars of book history,
the history of social and political thought, and social and
political theory.
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