Culture as politics : selected writings of Christopher Caudwell / edited by David Margolies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caudwell, Christopher, 1907-1937, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Margolies, David, editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sprigg, C. St. John (Christopher St. John), 1907-1937--Political and social views.

Sprigg, C. St. John.

Sprigg, C. St. John (Christopher St. John), 1907-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Sprigg, C. St. John (Christopher St. John), 1907-1937.

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Marxist criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xviii, 161 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, 2018.

Summary:

Culture as politics introduces the most accessible and relevant works of Christopher Caudwell, considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century. Caldwell 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 alien to most cultural theory. 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: a study of the sources of poetry. A strikingly original study of poetry's role, the book explained in clear language how the organizing of emotion in society plays a part in social change and development. Material in this collection is drawn from Illusion and reality among other texts.

Contents:

Part I. Studies in a dying culture

D.H. Lawrence: a study of the bourgeois artist

Freud: a study in bourgeois psychology

Liberty: a study in bourgeois illusion

Part II. Illusion and reality

The birth of poetry

The death of mythology

The development of modern poetry

English poets I: the period of primitive accumulation

English poets II: the Industrial Revolution

English poets III: the decline of capitalism

The movement of bourgeois poetry

The world and the 'I'

Part III. 'Heredity and development'

Heredity and development: a study of bourgeois biology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1583676872

9781583676875

1583676864

9781583676868

OCLC:

1014438870