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Description: The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form by turns tenacious and glancing elliptical or sustained combining argument and counter - argument reflection history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. Lives on the Left brings together sixteen such interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since. Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives and the specialized work for which they are often best known. Their recollections span the century from the Great War and the October Revolution to the present ranging across Europe the Americas Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis philosophy the gendering of private and public life capital and class formation the novel geography and language are among the topics of theoretical discussion. At the heart of the collection in all its diversity of testimony and judgement is critical experience of communism and the tradition of Marx relayed now for a new generation of readers. Lives on the Left includes interviews with Georg Luk cs Hedda Korsch Jean - Paul Sartre Dorothy Thompson Ji Pelikan Ernest Mandel Luciana Castellina Lucio Colletti K. Damodaran Noam Chomsky David Harvey Adolfo Gilly Jo o Pedro St dile Asada Akira Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi. New Left Review was founded in 1960 in London which has remained its base ever since. In fifty years of publication it has won an international reputation as an independent journal of socialist politics and ideas attracting readers and contributors from every part of the world. A Spanish - language edition is published bi - monthly from Madrid.
Title: Lives On The Left A Group Portrait
Brand: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844676996
Pages: 392 Pages
Publication Date: 11/7/2011
Series: New Left Review
Category: Socialism & Left-Of-Centre Democratic Ideologies
Description: The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form by turns tenacious and glancing elliptical or sustained combining argument and counter - argument reflection history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. Lives on the Left brings together sixteen such interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since. Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives and the specialized work for which they are often best known. Their recollections span the century from the Great War and the October Revolution to the present ranging across Europe the Americas Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis philosophy the gendering of private and public life capital and class formation the novel geography and language are among the topics of theoretical discussion. At the heart of the collection in all its diversity of testimony and judgement is critical experience of communism and the tradition of Marx relayed now for a new generation of readers. Lives on the Left includes interviews with Georg Luk cs Hedda Korsch Jean - Paul Sartre Dorothy Thompson Ji Pelikan Ernest Mandel Luciana Castellina Lucio Colletti K. Damodaran Noam Chomsky David Harvey Adolfo Gilly Jo o Pedro St dile Asada Akira Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi. New Left Review was founded in 1960 in London which has remained its base ever since. In fifty years of publication it has won an international reputation as an independent journal of socialist politics and ideas attracting readers and contributors from every part of the world. A Spanish - language edition is published bi - monthly from Madrid.
Title: Lives On The Left A Group Portrait
Brand: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844676996
Pages: 392 Pages
Publication Date: 11/7/2011
Series: New Left Review
Category: Socialism & Left-Of-Centre Democratic Ideologies
