Lives on the left
Subtitle: a group portrait
By: edited by Francis Mulhern
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781844676996
Subjects: Socialists; Socialism; New Left Review; New Left; Radicalism; Periodicals; Biography; History
Description: This volume brings together sixteen 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. Included here are interviews with Georg Lukács, Hedda Korsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dorothy Thompson, Ernest Mandel, Jiři Pelikan, Luciana Castellina, Lucio Colletti, K. Damodaran, Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Adolfo Gilly, João Pedro Stédile, Asada Akira, Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi.
Notes: "Interviews with New Left Review"--Back cover.

Includes index.