tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33675153.post5557169916327252895..comments2023-11-02T09:04:31.808-07:00Comments on People Reading : July 10, Thursday evening -- Reading Rosa LuxemburgSonya Worthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299666277858155086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33675153.post-59177303370103037082008-07-12T22:58:00.000-07:002008-07-12T22:58:00.000-07:00"Grapes of Wrath"?"Love on the Dole"."Grapes of Wrath"?<BR/><BR/>"Love on the Dole".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33675153.post-68826837048611927442008-07-11T13:11:00.000-07:002008-07-11T13:11:00.000-07:00Awesome post.Favorite Socialist Reading? How about...Awesome post.<BR/><BR/>Favorite Socialist Reading? How about a history?<BR/><BR/>Marxism and Totality by Martin Jay. <BR/><BR/>Jay works on intellectual history (AKA- the history of ideas) across the bay at UC Berkeley. He's perhaps the most renowned European Intellectual Historian around. The book focuses on 'Western Marxism'- i.e., the thinkers in Western Europe who took a more nuanced 'philosophical' and 'cultural' approach to Marxism, and their working out of the concept of 'totality' (the whole is the truth)... <BR/><BR/>I like this book because it glosses over the canonical figures of Western Marxism (From Lukacs and Gramsci who are thought to be its progenitors, to the Frankfurt School of Adorno, Marcuse and co. and French readings of Marx- like Sartre, Althusser, etc)<BR/><BR/>He also wrote 'The Dialectical Imagination' - which focuses directly on the Frankfurt School thinkers.Navidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856786676771733962noreply@blogger.com