NEW TITLE:
LIVES ON THE LEFT: A GROUP PORTRAIT
Interviews with NEW LEFT REVIEW
Edited by FRANCIS MULHERN
Published: 14 NOVEMBER 2011
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“That's what I admire above all about NEW LEFT REVIEW: its intellectual seriousness—its magnificently strenuous attempt to understand, to analyse, to theorise.”—STEFAN COLLINI, GUARDIAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/13/new-left-review-stefan-collini
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LONDON EVENT:
November 12, 2011, 11.45am-1.30pm, in Room B104, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
NEW LEFT REVIEW at Historical Materialism 2011: LIVES ON THE LEFT
A panel discussion with Robin Blackburn, Francis Mulhern and Donald Sassoon
For further information visit:
http://www.versobooks.com/events/305-new-left-review-at-historical-materialism-2011-lives-on-the-left
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The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. LIVES ON THE LEFT brings together sixteen such interviews from NEW LEFT REVIEW in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since.
Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives, and the specialized work for which they are, often, best known. Their recollections span the century from the Great War and the October Revolution to the present, ranging across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, the gendering of private and public life, capital and class formation, the novel, geography, and language are among the topics of theoretical discussion. At the heart of the collection, in all its diversity of testimony and judgement, is critical experience of communism and the tradition of Marx, relayed now for a new generation of readers.
LIVES ON THE LEFT includes interviews with Georg Lukács, Hedda Korsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dorothy Thompson, Jiri Pelikan, Ernest Mandel, Luciana Castellina, Lucio Colletti, K. Damodaran, Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Adolfo Gilly, Joao Pedro Stédile, Asada Akira, Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi.
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NEW LEFT REVIEW was founded in 1960 in London, which has remained its base ever since. In fifty years of publication, it has won an international reputation as an independent journal of socialist politics and ideas, attracting readers and contributors from every part of the world. A Spanish-language edition is published bi-monthly from Madrid.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 699 6 / Ł14.99/$24.95/$31CAN / Paperback Original / 392 pages
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