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Title: Culture as Politics
Condition: New
Description: Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29. Although already a published writer of aeronautic texts and crime fiction, he was practically unknown to the public until reviews appeared of Illusion and Reality, which was published just after his death. A strikingly original study of poetry's role, it explained in clear language how the organising of emotion in society plays a part in social change and development.

Caudwell had a powerful interest in how things worked – aeronautics, physics, human psychology, language and society. In the anti-fascist struggles of the 1930s he saw that capitalism was a system that could not work properly and distorted the thinking of the age. Self-educated from the age of 15, he wrote with a directness that is quite alien to most cultural theory.

Culture as Politics introduces Caudwell's work through his most accessible and relevant writing. Material will be drawn from Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture and his essay 'Heredity and Development'.

Author: Christopher Caudwell
Contributor: David Margolies (Edited by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0745337228
EAN: 9780745337227
ISBN: 9780745337227
Genre: Literary Criticism
Publisher: Pluto Press
Release Date: 20/11/2017
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 135mm
Language: English
Subtitle: Selected Writings
Item Weight: 248g
Topic: Law & Politics, Society & Culture, Business & Finance
Release Year: 2017

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