Author: Paul Buhle File Type: pdf A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance and incredible sweep. Brimming over with archival finds and buoyed by the recollections of witnesses and participants in the radical movements of decades past, Marxism in the United States includes fascinating accounts of the immigrant socialism of the nineteenth century, the formation of the CPUSA in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, the rise of American communism and of the hugely influential Popular Front in the 1920s and 30s, the crisis and split of the 50s, and the revival of Marxism in the 60s and 70s. This revised and updated edition also takes into account the last quartercentury of life in the U.S., bringing the story of American Marxism up to the present. With todays resurgent interest in radicalism, this new edition provides an unparalleled guide to 150 years of American left history. **Review Cogent and provocative ... this single volume challenges the entire edifice of modern US cultural and political history.David Montgomery, Monthly Review Paul Buhle has writte as good a book, with stunning command of detail and hard-headed generosity, as anyone in his generation about the life of radicalism in America.Times Higher Education Supplement About the Author Paul Buhle,formerly a senior lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison.

Author: Roger Berkowitz File Type: pdf Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century. In her works, she grappled with the dark events of that century, probing the nature of power, authority, and evil, and seeking to confront totalitarian horrors on their own terms. This book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking. Indeed, she argues that the activity of thinking is the only reliable protection against the horrors that buffeted the last century. Its essays explore and enact that activity, which Arendt calls the habit of erecting obstacles to oversimplifications, compromises, and conventions.Most of the essays were written for a conference at Bard College celebrating the 100th anniversary of Arendts birth. Arendt left her personal library and literary effects to Bard, and she is buried in the Bard College cemetery. Material from the Bard archive-such as a postcard to Arendt from Walter Benjamin or her annotation in her copy of Machiavellis The Prince-and images from her life are interspersed with the essays in this volume.The volume will offer provocations and insights to Arendt scholars, students discovering Arendts work, and general readers attracted to Arendts vision of the importance of thinking in our own dark times. **

Author: Chris Frith File Type: pdf Written by one of the worlds leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world.ullUses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain llDemonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain llShows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possiblelulReviewThis book presents a clear description of the current neuroscientific view of the relationship between the brain and the mind. (Brain Science Podcast, May 2009) Neuroscience and psychology often struggle to answer the really interesting questions about the mind, but in this fascinating book, Chris Frith shows that science can finally start explaining how and why we experience the world as we do. Anyone interested in human nature - not just the nuts and bolts of neural circuits - will find his storytelling compelling. Frith delves into topics such as delusions, illusions, imagination and imitation, bringing clarity and insight to the simplest abservations and most complex experiments alike. (New Scientist)ullMaking up the Mind is an interesting book to everybody who wants to learn more about how the brain gives rise to our mental experiences...As Frith himself depicts in a sort of framing story, you will easily find yourself talking about these ideas at your next dinner party, as well as use it for serious considerations on the brain or as a toolbox for next terms essay. A stimulating new book by a distinguished scientist who knows what he is talking about. (Metapsychology Online Reviews)*lulFrith has produced an enthralling discussion on the subtle links between mind and brain, sometimes with humorous liaisons between himself, as narrator, and others who might be labelled as sceptics, unbelievers. (Psychologist)Stands apart from many that have been written lately For those who have time to read only one book this should be it. Essential. (Choice Reviews)ReviewOliver SacksMaking up the Mind is a fascinating guided tour through the elusive interface between mind and brain written by a pioneer in the field. The authors obvious passion for the subject shines through every page.V. S. RamachandranI soon made up my mind that this is an excellent, most readable and stimulating book. The author is a distinguished neuroscientist working especially on brain imaging.RL Gregory, Experimental PsychologyChris Frith, one of the pioneers in applying brain imaging to study mental processes, has written a brilliant introduction to the biology of mental processes for the general reader. This superb book describes how we recreate in our brains a representation of the external world. Clearly and beautifully written, this book is for all who want to learn about how the brain gives rise to the mental phenomenon of our lives. A must read!Eric R. Kandel, M.D.Important and surprising. The brain will never seem the same again.Lewis Wolpert, University College LondonFriths luminously intelligent book...raises interesting questions about how it is possible to make serious scientific progress, on the borders of metaphysics, while still thinking inside a framework that is an ontological and epistemological muddle.Raymond Tallis, Brain

Author: Harry Magdoff File Type: pdf This volume contains a series of essays aimed at illuminating the theory, history, and roots of imperialism, which extend the analysis developed in Magdoffs The Age of Imperialism.About the AuthorHarry Magdoff has been a co-editor of Monthly Review since 1969 and is the author of The Age of Imperialism and Imperialism From the Colonial Age to the Present.