Writing From the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics - Couverture souple

Wald, Alan M.

 
9781859840016: Writing From the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1859840019 ISBN 13 : 9781859840016
Editeur : Verso Books, 1994

Synopsis

In this wide-ranging new collection the author of the acclaimed The New York Intellectuals surveys the current crisis of the writers and cultural workers radicalized by the 1960s. He argues that the left can draw strength by reconceptualizing its cultural legacy as a rich, diverse stream of political and cultural experiences flowing over six decades. Writing from the Left draws deeply on this tradition, highlighting its contemporary relevance. After an assessment of some classic US Marxist texts, Wald resurrects numerous "lost" radical writers from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, applying today's concerns about race, gender and mass culture to the past. He then analyzes more recent developments in Marxist scholarship, combining oral history, close textual analysis, fresh primary research, and empirically grounded theory to argue that a Marxism based on anti-Stalinist principles can learn much from the hidden, misunderstood legacy of US Communism. Indeed, in his view the importance of anti-racist political struggle in this tradition has been - and should remain - the "great theme" of the US cultural and political left.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alan M. Wald is Professor in the English Department and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. His previous books include James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years, The Revolutionary Imagination, The New York Intellectuals, and The Responsibility of Intellectuals. He is a member of the editorial board of Against the Current.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1859840019
ISBN 13 
9781859840016
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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ISBN 10 :  1859849067 ISBN 13 :  9781859849064
Editeur : Verso Books, 1994
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