Lives on the Left

Lives on the Left

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9781844676996
Untertitel:
A Group Portrait
Genre:
Politikwissenschaft
Autor:
Francis Mulhern
Herausgeber:
Verso Books
Auflage:
New.
Anzahl Seiten:
392
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.11.2011
ISBN:
978-1-84467-699-6

Informationen zum Autor Francis Mulhern is Associate Editor of New Left Review . His books include The Moment of "Scrutiny" , Culture/Metaculture and the edited collection Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review . Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century , Adam Smith in Beijing , and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System . His work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review --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. Asada Akira 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 Structure and Power: Beyond Semiotics . Since then he has published, among other things, Beyond "the End of History" and The End of Cinema's Century . He was co-editor of Hihyokukan ("Critical Space"). Luciana Castellina 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 Nuovo Generazione , il manifesto and Liberazione . Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Power and the New Mandarins , Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring Democracy , Year 501 , World Orders Old and New , Powers and Prospects , Profit over People , The New Military Humanism and Rogue States . Lucio Colletti (1924-2001) served on the editorial board of Società , 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. K. Damodaran (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. Adolfo Gilly is a professor of history and politics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the author of the classic study La revolución interrumpida (in English, The Mexican Revolution ), which was conceived and written while he was imprisoned. David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City , The Condition of Postmodernity , The Limits to Capital , A Brief History of Neoliberalism , Spaces of Global Capitalism , and A Companion to Marx's Capital . His website is davidharvey.org Wang Hui 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...

Autorentext
Francis Mulhern is Associate Editor of New Left Review. His books include The Moment of "Scrutiny", Culture/Metaculture and the edited collection Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review. Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century, Adam Smith in Beijing, and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. His work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review--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. Asada Akira 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 Structure and Power: Beyond Semiotics. Since then he has published, among other things, Beyond "the End of History" and The End of Cinema's Century. He was co-editor of Hihyokukan ("Critical Space"). Luciana Castellina 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 Nuovo Generazione, il manifesto and Liberazione. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Power and the New Mandarins, Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring Democracy, Year 501, World Orders Old and New, Powers and Prospects, Profit over People, The New Military Humanism and Rogue States. Lucio Colletti (1924-2001) served on the editorial board of Società, 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. K. Damodaran (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. Adolfo Gilly is a professor of history and politics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the author of the classic study La revolución interrumpida (in English, The Mexican Revolution), which was conceived and written while he was imprisoned. David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is davidharvey.org Wang Hui 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 Foreign Policy. Hedda Korsch (1890…


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