Marxism In Dark Times

Author : Sobhanlal Datta Gupta
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783080861

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Marxism in Dark Times by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta Pdf

Offering an alternative exploration of the subject, ‘Marxism in Dark Times’ anchors its investigation of Marxism in the conceptual spheres of humanism, democracy and pluralism. Its essays question the stereotyped, positivist notion of the theory as practised by the exponents of official Marxism, highlight the legacy of the suppressed voices in the Marxist tradition, and provide new insights into reading Marxism in the twenty-first century—affording new perspectives on Antonio Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg, Nikolai Bukharin, David Ryazanov and the Frankfurt School. They seek to review the phenomenon of ‘Perestroika,’ explore the new historiography on Comintern, and examine the relation between Marxism and postmodernism. With its wide-ranging provision of materials—some translated here into English from German and Russian for the first time—this collection offers a pioneering English assessment of some of the most debatable issues in contemporary Marxism.

Author : Datta GUPTA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9380601972

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Marxism Dark Times by Datta GUPTA Pdf

Author : Amelia M. Glaser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674248458

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Songs in Dark Times by Amelia M. Glaser Pdf

A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples. Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed. The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of many national groups. The utopian Jews of Songs in Dark Times effectively globalized the pogroms in a bold and sometimes fraught literary move that asserted continuity with anti-Arab violence and black lynching. As communists and fellow travelers, the writers also sought to integrate particular experiences of suffering into a borderless narrative of class struggle. Glaser resurrects their poems from the pages of forgotten Yiddish communist periodicals, particularly the New York–based Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the Soviet literary journal Royte Velt (Red World). Alongside compelling analysis, Glaser includes her own translations of ten poems previously unavailable in English, including Malka Lee’s “God’s Black Lamb,” Moyshe Nadir’s “Closer,” and Esther Shumiatsher’s “At the Border of China.” These poets dreamed of a moment when “we” could mean “we workers” rather than “we Jews.” Songs in Dark Times takes on the beauty and difficulty of that dream, in the minds of Yiddish writers who sought to heal the world by translating pain.

Author : Govind P. Deshpande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4559219

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A Man in Dark Times by Govind P. Deshpande Pdf

A Marxist intellectual, facing an inquiry, stands by his commitment, even as the forces ranged against him rake up a past that is a long and painful story of humiliation, betrayal and failure. In this widely performed play, the public and the private, the ideological and the emotional interpenetrate to make this exposure/self-discovery of a highly-sensitive individual a piece of intellectual history so characteristic of its author, the Marathi playwright G. P. Deshpande, a leading Marxist intellectual himself and Professor of Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859843093

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Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman Pdf

Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.

Author : Bernard-Henri Lévy
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812974720

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Left in Dark Times by Bernard-Henri Lévy Pdf

In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it that progressives themselves–those who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascism–have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes: an unthinking loathing of Israel; an obsessive anti-Americanism; an idea of “tolerance” that, in its justification of Islamic fanaticism, for example, could become the “cemetery of democracies”; and an indifference, masked by relativism, to the greatest human tragedies facing the world today? At a time of ideological and political transition in America, Left in Dark Times articulates the threats we all face–in many cases without our even being aware of it–and offers a powerful new vision for progressives everywhere.

Author : Jeffrey C. Isaac
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501725784

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Democracy in Dark Times by Jeffrey C. Isaac Pdf

"This is a truly illuminating and necessary book. Jeffrey Isaac lucidly explores the moral and political dilemmas of this turbulent fin-de-siecle, East and West. His passionate approach is inspired by a genuine moral vision that sees liberal democracy as an unfinished, continuously beleaguered project. Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus, I am sure, would have been in full agreement with his line of reasoning."—Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland, College Park "This will be the first of the many recent books on Hannah Arendt to move beyond exegesis to engage in the kind of thinking about politics that she so valued. The book brings an Arendtian voice back into contemporary politics."—Lisa Disch, author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy "Jeffrey Isaac's new book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to grapple seriously with the challenges confronting progressive democratic aspirations."—Ian Shapiro, Yale University "This book reveals Isaac to be a first-rate essayist, a bold critic who writes about key issues of politics and democracy with learning, style, and power."—Robert A. Dahl, Yale University "Persuaded by Jeffrey Isaac's argument about dark times, I nonetheless found these essays full of light—strong, lively, provocative, and even, despite themselves, encouraging. There can't be a renewal of democratic theory and practice without the kind of critique that Isaac provides."—Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study

Author : Bernard Henri Lévy
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400064359

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Left in Dark Times by Bernard Henri Lévy Pdf

The philosopher, activist, and author of American Vertigo warns of growing totalitarianism around the globe, covering such topics as the genealogy of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and Islamo-fascism, and calls for the evolution of a new type of politics based on universal values and ethics. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 9781498559249

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Marx and Engels on Imperialism by Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels Pdf

This volume is an annotated collection of journalistic writings by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from 1856 to 1862 that focused on imperialism.

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408845394

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Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose Pdf

Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German–Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last century – revolution, totalitarianism, the American dream. Enraged by injustice, they are each in touch with what is most painful about being human, bound together by their willingness to bring the unspeakable to light. Taking the argument into the present are today's women, courageous individuals involved in some of the cruellest realities of our times. Grappling with the reality of honour killing – notably through the stories of Shafilea Ahmed, Fadime Sahindal and Heshu Yones – Rose argues that the work of feminism is far from done. In the final three chapters, she celebrates the work of three brilliant contemporary artists – Esther Shalev-Gerz, Yael Bartana and Thérèse Oulton – whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world. Women in Dark Times shows us how these visionary women offer a new template for feminism. Taking their stand against the iniquities of our times, they tread a path between public and private pain, confronting us with what we need most urgently, but also often, cannot bear to see.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156588900

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Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt Pdf

Collection of essays which present portraits of individuals ranging from Rosa Luxemburg to Pope John XXIII who the author believes have illuminated "dark times."

Author : Joshua L. Cherniss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691220932

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Liberalism in Dark Times by Joshua L. Cherniss Pdf

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism—a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights—are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin—each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here. Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition—one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos.

Author : Amiya Kumar Bagchi,Amita Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317561774

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Marxism by Amiya Kumar Bagchi,Amita Chatterjee Pdf

This book offers a unique re-conceptualization of Marxism in bringing together leading scholars across disciplines — history, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, and literary and culture studies — into one comprehensive corpus. It demonstrates the engaging relevance of the perspectives and techniques of the analyses adopted by Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and contemporary Marxists, and will be immensely useful to scholars and researchers across social sciences as well as general readers interested in Marxism.

Author : David Aaronovitch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780224074711

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Party Animals by David Aaronovitch Pdf

'An affectionate and insightful account of 20th-century history that also amounts to a manifesto for the power of words - and belonging.' Helen Davies, a Sunday Times Book of the Year In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism. But who were they, these ever hopeful, defiant and (had they but known it) historically doomed people? Like a non-magical version of the wizards of J. K. Rowling's world, they lived secretly with and parallel to the non-communist majority, sometimes persecuted, sometimes ignored, but carrying on their own ways and traditions. Where others went to church they went to Socialist Sunday School, society's up was their down and its heroes were their villains. Who wanted American TV when you could have Russian movies? A memoir of early life among communists, Party Animals first took David Aaronovitch back through his own memories of belief and action. But there was much more to it. He found himself studying the old secret service files, uncovering the unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his own existence as a party animal. Only then did he begin to understand what had come before - both the obstinate heroism and the monstrous cowardice. And the elements that shape our fondest beliefs.

Author : Rudolf Schlesinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135035013

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Marx His Times and Ours by Rudolf Schlesinger Pdf

Published in 1998, Marx His Time and Ours is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.