aijaz ahmad vijay prashad (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Description: "Some radical critics may have forgotten about Marxism; but Marxism, in the shape of Ahmad's devastating, courageously unfashionable critique, has not forgotten about them." Terry Eagleton's blurb for Aijaz Ahmad's celebrated book, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (1992). Two features characterize the entire body of Aijaz Ahmad's work, which offers us a way to read the history of the present. First, his evident wide reading about the history and sociology of the world, which allows him to provide the necessary global context for his study and for our new times that remain tied to the contradictions of a longer history. Second, his grip on Marxism, a living Marxism, a Marxism that has absorbed both the streams of Western Marxism and of national liberation Marxism. Vijay Prashad writes that it is impossible for him to think without thinking alongside the work of Aijaz Ahmad. In this fascinating and wide-ranging conversation, he draws out Ahmad, separating and interweaving strands of his thought, and in the process inviting us, the readers, to take a look at the method that drives his analysis. In the process, we learn to think through the present, better.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. For a thinker whose revolutionary ideas have had such a decisive impact on the world, it is ironic that Marx's own political writings remain so neglected. His political writings are often seen as texts written instrumentally to earn money, which he often desperately needed, or they are seen as beautiful texts with little connection to his economic studies and writings. But in fact, Marx's political texts are themselves extraordinary displays of analysis of the class struggle and the mediations needed to understand these struggles. Aijaz Ahmad (19412022) guided generations of Marxists around the world in their struggle to understand the world and to change the world. In these conversations with Vijay Prashad, himself a leading Marxist thinker, Aijaz Ahmad examines texts such as The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, and The Civil War in France, placing them in context, drawing out their interconnections, and shining his bright analytical torch on aspects that make these texts come alive for us today. This book is a little gem, a veritable course on how to read Karl Marx.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 222 pages. 8.46x5.51x0.63 inches. In Stock.