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  • Revolutionary Subjects

    A Radical History of the Bildungsroman

    by Benjamin Kohlmann ...
    A literary history spanning borders and centuries to explore radicalization as portrayed in fictionTracing the evolution of socialist world literature from the nineteenth century to the present, Benjamin Kohlmann uncovers the formal repertoires through which a set of political ideals found aesthetic expression. At the heart of this study is the radical bildungsroman, a genre that subverts dominant ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 'The People' and British Literature

    Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy

    Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann, Matthew Taunton ...
    Series series Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture
    Why do invocations of 'the people' carry such force in current political discourse and public debate? This book offers an ambitiously transhistorical account of the ways that 'the people' has figured in British literature and culture. Ranging from the later mediaeval period to the present, the twenty-three chapters draw on substantial new research to show that the figure of the people has been put ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Political Uses of Literature

    Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020

    Edited by Prof. or Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann, Dr. Ivana Perica ...
    Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.The question of literature's 'uses' has recently become a key topic of academic and public debate. Paradoxically, however, these conversations often tend to bypass the rich history of engagements with ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • British Literature and the Life of Institutions

    Speculative States

    by Benjamin Kohlmann ...
    British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in dialogue with political theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas, the book reclaims a substantive reformist language that we ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    by George Orwell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Disgusted by society's materialism, Gordon Comstock leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. In his race to the bottom, only Rosemary, his long-suffering girlfriend, challenges Gordon's self-destructive course. The novel contains the most sustained reflections on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • A History of 1930s British Literature

    Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann, Matthew Taunton ...
    This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a 'low, dishonest decade', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a 'late modernist' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the contours ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain

    Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann ...
    Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Upward’s fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Totalitarianism

    A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy

    by Simona Forti ...
    Series series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
    In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present?Philosopher Simona Forti seeks to answer these questions by ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Utopia in the Age of Survival

    Between Myth and Politics

    by S. D. Chrostowska ...
    A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges.Utopia in the Age of Survival makes the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a speculative myth. At the same time the left must reassume utopia ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Sovereign Self

    Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy—the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society—through Kant, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954–1978

    Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory

    Edited by Kevin B. Anderson, Russell Rockwell ...
    Series series Studies in Marxism and Humanism
    This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers, the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-80), both of the latter members of the Frankfurt School of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD