{"product_id":"9780872863514","title":"Revolutionary Romanticism","description":"Author: Max Blechman\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780872863514\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: City Lights Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jan 2001\u003cbr\u003ePages: 250 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, new light is shed on the radical sensibilities of Novalis, Friedrich Hlderlin, and Friedrich Schlegel and the profoundly oppositional poetics of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, and William Blake. The social romanticism of Jules Michelet is acclaimed for its visionary, quasi-religious breadth. The Paris Commune is figured by Karl Marx, Jules Valles, and Arthur Rimbaud. All-but-forgotten episodes of German expressionism and anarchism are recalled. The romantic outlook of Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse is relocated in their absolute negation of the social order. Surrealism, \"the prehensile tail of romanticism,\" is followed to Haiti where it catalyzes revolt. And, at the end of the twentieth century, Guy Debord and the Situationist International provide the passionate detournement of the romantic project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e is a courageous and worthy effort to maintain alive, in a difficult period, unfettered critical thinking. It ought to be supported by all who care about freedom and justice.\" -Cornelius Castoriadis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Institution of Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a period when politics is dreary and political art cliched, \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliantly alive and unconventional. It summons up a world where subversion spelled art and art spelled liberation; but \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a blast from the past: it speaks to the present. \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e is the vessel of choice for these bored with chartered cruises and organized day-trips.\" -Russell Jacoby, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Intellectuals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . an illuminating collection of essays that surveys the evolutionand common threadsof romantic political thought over the last 200 years.\" -\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Provides a readable, comprehensive history of 'a continued Vision' at odds with an empirical world.\" -\u003ci\u003eAustin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919266168990,"sku":"ING-9780872863514","price":46.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780872863514.jpg?v=1782809490","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780872863514","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}