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Archive of Charles Baudelaire

    Michael Löwy
    22 June 2017
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    An Invisible Underground River: On Left-Wing Melancholia

    Michael Löwy reviews Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia. This article from Viento Sur was translated by David Broder.

    Andy Merrifield
    16 June 2017
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    No professional will ever make the revolution

    No past revolution, she says, can be attributed to professional revolutionaries. Usually it was the other way around: “revolution broke out and liberated, as it were, the professional revolutionaries from wherever they happened to be – from jail, or from the coffee house, or from the library.”

    Five great amateurs whose work changed the world, from author of The Amateur, Andy Merrifield. 

    The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love is 40% off, included free bundled ebook, until Sunday, June 18 at midnight UTC. Click here to access the discount.

    Perry Anderson
    31 May 2017
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    Thematic Innovations of Western Marxism

    This text is excerpted from Considerations on Western Marxism, written in 1974 as the introduction to a reader on Western Marxism whose publication was ultimately delayed before appearing as a standalone volume in 1976.

    Verso Books
    20 September 2016
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    Frankfurt School Bookshelf

    In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Their lives, like their ideas, profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the twentieth century.  Here we present our Frankfurt School reading.

    Walter Benjamin
    30 August 2016
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    Walter Benjamin: Conversations with Brecht

    Stuart Jeffries
    02 August 2016
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    The Storm Blowing from Paradise: Walter Benjamin and Klee's Angelus Novus

    What was so marvellous to Benjamin about this goofy, eternally hovering angel with hair that looks like paper scrolls, aerodynamically hopeless wings and googly if rather melancholy eyes? “This,” he wrote in one of his greatest essays, “is how one pictures the angel of history.”

    Sarah Shin
    07 June 2016
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    Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller: The Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop

    The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection illuminate the themes that defined Benjamin’s work. 

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