Studies And Further Studies In A Dying Culture
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A landmark work of Marxist cultural criticism, Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture presents the combined essays of Christopher Caudwell, the pen name of the brilliant British theorist Christopher St. John Sprigg, who was killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War at just 29. The collection argues with remarkable intellectual rigour that bourgeois capitalism is the root cause of crisis in Western art, science, and philosophy, tracing its corrosive effects across disciplines including poetry, psychology, and physics. Caudwell's prose is incisive and combative, drawing on a vast range of sources to illustrate how ideology permeates cultural production. This edition, with an introduction by Sol Yurick, brings together two essential volumes — Studies in a Dying Culture (1938) and Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949) — cementing Caudwell's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original and uncompromising cultural thinkers.
Author: Christopher Caudwell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Monthly Review Press (MR) - New York and London
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings . Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding.
A landmark work of Marxist cultural criticism, Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture presents the combined essays of Christopher Caudwell, the pen name of the brilliant British theorist Christopher St. John Sprigg, who was killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War at just 29. The collection argues with remarkable intellectual rigour that bourgeois capitalism is the root cause of crisis in Western art, science, and philosophy, tracing its corrosive effects across disciplines including poetry, psychology, and physics. Caudwell's prose is incisive and combative, drawing on a vast range of sources to illustrate how ideology permeates cultural production. This edition, with an introduction by Sol Yurick, brings together two essential volumes — Studies in a Dying Culture (1938) and Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949) — cementing Caudwell's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original and uncompromising cultural thinkers.