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Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780394568287
A leading English historian presents a satirical novel in which the poet, gardener, and space traveller, Oi Paz, arrives to take possession of Earth and falls victim to terrestrial bureaucrats and other fumblers.
Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1473219825
For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Look at the Evidence is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1987 and 1992.
Author : Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847797903
The Crisis of Theory, available in paperback for the first time, tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his little-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. Hamilton shows the connection between Thompson's famously ferocious attack on the 'Stalinism in theory' of Louis Althusser and his assaults on positivist social science in books like The making of the English working class, and he produces previously unseen evidence to show that Thompson's hostility to both left and right-wing forms of authoritarianism was rooted in first-hand experience of violent political repression. This book will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in left-wing politics and theory, British society, twentieth-century history, modernist poetry, and the philosophy of history.
Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 1996-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791427941
Develops a radical politics of community that engages with practical issues such as the Gulf War and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles, set against the context of postmodern capitalism.
Author : E.P. Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1988-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747503279
When he came to Earth (or Sykaos as it was known to the Oitarians), the poet, space-traveller and gardener Oi Paz declaimed its attractions. It seemed to him that if it should prove to be inhabited by intellectual beings that they could not fail to be harmonious within such harmonious surroundings.;The truth shocked him. How could such noisome, graceless beasts so closely resemble the humans of Oitar and carry on in this higgledy fashion? Decoding the nuances of their crudity, language, myths and lawgivers became essential when the primitives dismantled his spacecraft.;However, as Oi Paz grows accustomed to life on Earth, he also experiences an unforeseen breakdown of his Oitarian taboos, while at the same time his presence seems to trigger off a perilous tendency among his captors to fulfil their dreadful Sykotic destiny.;The epic sojourn of Oi Paz presents a vision of earth not only as it is to the extraordinary outsider, but very much from within.;E.P.Thompson is the author of many works of non-fiction, including "The Making of the English Working Class". This is his first novel.
Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Who is Epoch Echoes Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" and the "short 20th century", and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Eric Hobsbawm Chapter 2: Marxism-Leninism Chapter 3: R. Palme Dutt Chapter 4: Harry Pollitt Chapter 5: New Communist Party of Britain Chapter 6: New Reasoner Chapter 7: Tom Wintringham Chapter 8: Harpal Brar Chapter 9: Raphael Samuel Chapter 10: John Saville Chapter 11: Victor Kiernan Chapter 12: Communism Chapter 13: Tankie Chapter 14: Brian Pearce Chapter 15: E. P. Thompson Chapter 16: Communist Party Historians Group Chapter 17: Communist Party of Great Britain Chapter 18: Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) Chapter 19: The Age of Extremes Chapter 20: Marxist historiography Chapter 21: Far-left politics in the United Kingdom Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Epoch Echoes.
Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780877227427
A discussion of the historical, theoretical, and political problems that have been central to the work of Thompson as an historian, socialist, and peace activist. A key focus is the relationship between determination and agency--the central thesis of The making of the English working class--in particular reference to historical theory and practice. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roger Fieldhouse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1784991759
Available in paperback for the first time, E. P. Thompson and English radicalism gathers together a selection of leading authors from a diverse range of disciplines to critically review not only this pivotal work, but the wide range of his career, including his experience as an adult educator, writer, poet and critic. His involvement in the early New Left, his political theories, his socialist humanism and his concept of class are all interrogated fully. Thompson was also a notable and passionate political polemicist, peace campaigner and activist who saw all his public activity as complementary parts of a unified whole, and this collection aims to bring his ideas to the attention of a new generation of students, scholars and activists.
Author : David Goodway
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1604866675
From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.
Author : Roland Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004189769
Criticism of Theology provides a detailed and critical commentary on the continued fascination with religion by yet more significant Marxist philosophers, historians and critics: Max Horkheimer, E.P. Thompson, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Michael Löwy, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri. Simultaneously critique and construction, Criticism of Theology carefully analyses their work through close textual readings, with a view to locating hidden gems that may be developed further. The book continues the project for a renewed and enlivened interaction between Marxism and religion, being the third of five volumes in the Criticism of Heaven and Earth series.
