Holding fast to an image of the past : explorations in the Marxist tradition /

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Author / Creator:	Davidson, Neil, 1957-
Edition:	Pbk. ed.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, c2014.
Description:	xiv, 418 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Socialism. Communism. Marxian school of sociology. Communism and society. Historical materialism. Marxist criticism. Communism. Communism and society. Historical materialism. Marxian school of sociology. Marxist criticism. Socialism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10042469

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ISBN:	9781608463336 1608463338
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In this fascinating collection, Neil Davidson explores the nature of the Marxist tradition through a series of essays on individual thinkers. Combining surveys of the careers and figures including Tom Nairn and Alasdair MacIntyre with assessments of important works like Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities and Isaac Deutscher's biography of Trotsky, and ranging in time from the legacy of Adam Smith to Naomi Klein's analysis of neoliberalism, Davidson argues for a self-reflective form of historical materialism as a necessary intellectual component of the struggle for human liberation"--P. [4] of cover.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Tom Nairn and the Inevitability of Nationalism
2. Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands
3. The Prophet, His Biographer, and the Watchtower: Isaac Deutscher's Biography of Leon Trotsky
4. There's No Place Like the United States Today: Victor Kiernan and Neil Smith on US Imperialism
5. Carnival, March, Riot: David Renton on the Anti-Nazi League
6. Alasdair MacIntyre as a Marxist
7. Reimagined Communities: Benedict AndersonÆs Theory of Nationalism
8. Walter Benjamin and the Classical Marxist Tradition
9. Shock and Awe: Naomi KleinÆs Interpretation of Neoliberalism
10. Antonio Gramsci's Reception in Scotland
11. Women and the Lost World of Scottish Communism: Neil Rafeek's Communist Women in Scotland
12. Eric Hobsbawm's Unanswered Question
13. The Posthumous Adventures of Adam Smith
Notes
Index

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