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Francis Mulhern - Lives on the Left - 9781844676996 - V9781844676996
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Lives on the Left

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Description for Lives on the Left Paperback. Voices of Sartre, Lukacs, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with NLR. Editor(s): Mulhern, Francis. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBLW; HBLX; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 602.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844676996
SKU
V9781844676996
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99-10

About Francis Mulhern
Francis Mulhern (born 1952) comes from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. He was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. His books include The Moment of 'Scrutiny' and Culture/Metaculture. He is Associate Editor of New Left Review. Adolfo Gilly (1928-2023) was a professor of history and politics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the author of ... Read more

Reviews for Lives on the Left
The biography of the review cannot be reduced to a formula: its experience so far has been too rich and too contradictory... It is up to date without being merely journalistic; it is scholarly but unscarred by citation-compulsion; and it is analytical about the long-term forces at work in politics rather than obsessed by the spume of the latest wavelet ... Read more

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