Critique and Social Transformation: Lessons from Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bakhtin and Raymond Williams - Hardcover

Juan, E San, Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773447784 ISBN 13: 9780773447783

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2009

Synopsis

This book attempts to interpret and evaluate the historical-materialist critique of modern society advanced by three progressive thinkers: Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Raymond Williams. It seeks to articulate a transformative praxis useful for all activist cultural workers today confronting the perilous demise of the barbaric neoliberal Empire of finance-capital.

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About the Author

Dr. San Juan is a Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

Review

"As both nuanced scholarship and rigorous critical practice, San Juan's work is a brilliant example of how a subaltern activist inhabiting the beleaguered zones of the Empire can not only speak against injustice and racist barbarism, but also write in a militantly engaged, provocative way on behalf of the satisfaction of human needs through popular, democratic, egalitarian governance. Our task is to acknowledge this example by word and deed." - Prof. Peter McLaren University of California at Los Angeles"

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0773447784
• ISBN 13: 9780773447783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 282