The Imagination of the New Left

The Imagination of the New Left
Author: George N. Katsiaficas
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780896082274

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"The Imagination of the New Left" brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Test Offensive in Vietnam and guerilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; the near-revolution in France of May 1968; and the May 1970 student strike in the United States. Despite its apparent failure, the New Left represented a global transition to a newly defined cultural and political epoch, and its impact continues to be felt today.

The Liberal Imagination

The Liberal Imagination
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1590175514

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The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote.

Renewing the Left

Renewing the Left
Author: Harvey M. Teres
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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Teres (English, Syracuse U.) brings to life the world of New York intellectuals from the 1930s to the present, drawing lessons for progressive politics today and arguing for a reassessment of the legacy of the New York intellectuals. He examines issues such as race and gender relations, literary quality, and politics as a means to fulfill personal, spiritual, and ethical needs, and profiles various figures of New York's left-wing intellectual culture. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Imagination of the New Left

The Imagination of the New Left
Author: George N. Katsiaficas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1496
Release: 1983
Genre: College students
ISBN:

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Left Turn

Left Turn
Author: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317256700

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Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the traditions of the European left to the newest political trends in Latin America that have challenged the "death of socialism. Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of globalization, terrorism, and a crisis of public confidence in government.

Thinkers of the New Left

Thinkers of the New Left
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1985
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Acid Communism

Acid Communism
Author: Mark Fisher
Publisher: Pattern Books
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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A short zine collecting an introduction to the concept by Matt Colquhoun that appeared in 'krisis journal for contemporary philosophy Issue 2, 2018: Marx from the Margins' and the unfinished introduction to the unfinished book on Acid Communism that Mark Fisher was working on before his death in 2017. "In this way ‘Acid’ is desire, as corrosive and denaturalising multiplicity, flowing through the multiplicities of communism itself to create alinguistic feedback loops; an ideological accelerator through which the new and previously unknown might be found in the politics we mistakenly think we already know, reinstantiating a politics to come." —Matt Colquhoun

The Imagination of the New Left

The Imagination of the New Left
Author: George Nicholas Katsiaficas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1496
Release: 1983
Genre: College students
ISBN:

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The Radical Imagination

The Radical Imagination
Author: Doctor Alex Khasnabish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1780329032

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The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it 'radical'? How can it be fostered and cultivated? How can it be studied and what are the possibilities and risks of doing so? This book seeks to answer these questions at a crucial time. As we enter into a new cycle of struggles marked by a worldwide crisis of social reproduction, scholar-activists Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish explore the processes and possibilities for cultivating the radical imagination in dark times. A lively and crucial intervention in radical politics, social research and social change, and the collective visions and cultures that inspire them.

Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left
Author: Robert Latham
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 177363349X

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What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past. In so doing, we have the opportunity to plot a new way forward. The authors of this edited collection do just this: putting forward a diversity of approaches and issues to strategize for the work that awaits us in the 2020s, particularly in the struggle against capitalism, climate change and the far right. Working within five major thematic areas, the contributors examine how to engage working class people in anti-capitalist struggles, undermine reactionary currents of ethno-nationalism while supporting anti-colonial movements, strategically build power inside and outside the state apparatus, demand new forms of resistance to address environmental crises, and effectively promote solidarity and ecological responsibility. This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.