{"product_id":"lives-on-the-left-a-group-portrait-paperback","title":"Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Mulhern\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGiovanni Arrighi\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eAkira Asada\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eLives on the Left\u003c\/i\u003e brings together sixteen such interviews from \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLives on the Left \u003c\/i\u003eincludes interviews with Georg Lukács, Hedda Korsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dorothy Thompson, Jiří Pelikan, Ernest Mandel, Luciana Castellina, Lucio Colletti, K. Damodaran, Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Adolfo Gilly, João Pedro Stédile, Asada Akira, Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Left Review \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancis Mulhern\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Moment of \"Scrutiny\"\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCulture\/Metaculture\u003c\/i\u003e and the edited collection \u003ci\u003eLives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiovanni Arrighi\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Long Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdam Smith in Beijing\u003c\/i\u003e, and, with Beverly Silver, \u003ci\u003eChaos and Governance in the Modern World System\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in many publications, including \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e--who published an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory in March-April 2009, and an obituary in Nov-Dec 2009--and there are more accounts on his memorial website. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsada Akira\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic and curator and the current head of the Graduate School at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. His first book, published in 1983, was \u003ci\u003eStructure and Power: Beyond Semiotics\u003c\/i\u003e. Since then he has published, among other things, \u003ci\u003eBeyond \"the End of History\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Cinema's Century\u003c\/i\u003e. He was co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHihyokukan\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Critical Space\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuciana Castellina\u003c\/b\u003e has been a leading figure of the Italian Left since the 1960s. She co-founded the Partito di Unità Proletaria per il communismo (PdUP) and the Movimento dei Comunisti Unitari (CU). She was a member of the European parliament from 1979 to 1999 and has been at different times the editor of \u003ci\u003eNuovo Generazione\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eil manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiberazione\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/b\u003e is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Manufacturing Consent \u003c\/i\u003e(with Ed Herman), \u003ci\u003e Deterring Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Year 501\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e World Orders Old and New\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Powers and Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Profit over People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Military Humanism \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rogue States\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucio Colletti\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-2001) served on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eSocietà\u003c\/i\u003e, the cultural journal of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). After his split with PCI, he became a staunch left critic of its political and cultural orthodoxy. In his final years, he shifted to the right, joining the camp of Silvio Berlusconi and serving as parliamentary deputy as part of Forza Italia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eK. Damodaran\u003c\/b\u003e (1904-1976) was a prolific writer came to Marxism after early experience of militancy and imprisonment in the cause of Indian independence. He was one of the founders of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and went on to serve on the party's National Council and Central Executive, and in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian legislature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdolfo Gilly\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history and politics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the author of the classic study \u003ci\u003eLa revolución interrumpida\u003c\/i\u003e (in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e), which was conceived and written while he was imprisoned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eSocial Justice and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Condition of Postmodernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Limits to Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Global Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Marx's Capital\u003c\/i\u003e. His website is davidharvey.org \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWang Hui\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he currently lives. He studied at Yangzhou University, Nanjing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at NYU and other universities in the U.S. In 1989, he participated in the Tiananmen Square Protests and was subsequently sent to a poor inland province for compulsory \"re-education\" as punishment for his participation. He developed a leftist critique of government policy and came to be one of the leading proponents of the Chinese New Left in the 1990s, though Wang Hui did not choose this term. Wang was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008 by \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHedda Korsch\u003c\/b\u003e (1890-1982) helped form the German Communist Parth (KPD) and was a teacher at the University of Jena in the early 1920s. She also worked in experimental schools and the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin, until KPD leaders had her dismissed because of her relationship to the Marxist theorist Karl Korsch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorg Lukács \u003c\/b\u003e (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Mandel\u003c\/b\u003e (1923-95), historian, economist and activist, was a leading figure in the Fourth International from 1945 and was the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eLate Capitalism, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarxist Economic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLong Waves of Capitalist Development\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of the Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJiri Pelikan\u003c\/b\u003e (1923-1999) was the head of the Czech Students' Union and later served in the Central Committee and parliamentary group of the Czech Communist Party. He was a prominent actor in the movement that culminated in the Prague Spring of 1967-68. In his later years in exile, Pelikan published the émigré magazine \u003ci\u003eListy\u003c\/i\u003e, and collaborated with Charter 77. His struggle for socialist reform in Czechoslovakia made him the target of a letter-bomb attack and a kidnap attempt. From 1979 to 1989, he sat for the Italian Socialist Party in the European Parliament. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/b\u003e was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Modernes\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964--and turned it down. His books include \u003ci\u003eNausea, Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, and the monumental treatise \u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Pedro Stédile\u003c\/b\u003e is an advocate for agrarian reform in Brazil, both as a writer and as a leader of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), of which he was a co-founder. His numerous publications include the three-volume \u003ci\u003eA Questão Agraria no Brasil\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e taught in the School of History in the University of Birmingham, where she wrote a series of highly regarded books about Chartism and other topics in nineteenth-century British history--among them, \u003ci\u003e Early Chartists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChartism in Wales and Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOutsiders: Class, Gender and Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQueen Victoria: Gender and Power\u003c\/i\u003e. Her edited volume \u003ci\u003eOver Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e testified to her engagement in post-war peace movements.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.25 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733378462003,"sku":"9781844676996","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/U4bngSJAZ19781844676996.webp?v=1763927940","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/lives-on-the-left-a-group-portrait-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}