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UNINA9910457355703321 |
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Rees John <1957, > |
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The algebra of revolution : the dialectic and the classical Marxist tradition / / John Rees |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
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1-134-63928-7 |
1-280-14382-7 |
0-203-98317-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Dialectical materialism - History |
Dialectic - History |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism; 1 Hegel's Algebra of Revolution; 2 The Dialectic in Marx and Engels; 3 The First Crisis of Marxism; 4 Lenin and Philosophy; 5 The Legacy of Lukacs; 6 Trotsky and the Dialectic of History; Conclusion Contradictions of Contemporary Theory; Index; |
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This text provides a single volume study of major Marxist thinkers' views on the crucial question of the dialectic, connecting them with late-1990s political and theoretical questions. |
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UNISA996328034103316 |
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Imagining ageing : representations of age and ageing in the anglophone literatures / / Carmen Concilio, editor |
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Bielefeld : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Aging Studies ; ; Volume 18 |
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Editor's Introduction 7 Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land 13 Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men 19 Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe 27 The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending 41 "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute 61 A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain 85 "The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away From Her 103 Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello 127 Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway 141 "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Mori Case 165 Ageing and Neurologic Disease 183 Contributors 203 |
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What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature. The contributors examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and, together with a medical study, they suggest solutions to the challenges arising from the current |
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demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations. |
Besprochen in: Journal of Irish Studies, 9 (2019) |
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