{"product_id":"2026200015185-secondhand-proletarian-philosophers","title":"Proletarian Philosophers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the working class takes philosophy into its own hands? Proletarian Philosophers chronicles the remarkable intellectual journeys of British working-class men and women who, between 1900 and 1945, pursued philosophy not in the hallowed halls of Oxford or Cambridge, but in trade union meeting rooms, Workers' Educational Association classes, and cramped back-to-back terraces. Jonathan Rée presents a richly textured social and intellectual history, unearthing the stories of autodidacts and labour movement thinkers who wrestled earnestly with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, driven by the conviction that ideas held the power to transform society — a conviction their ruling-class counterparts were equally determined to suppress.\n\nRée's work stands as a quietly radical intervention in both the history of philosophy and the history of the British left, arguing that the boundaries between high philosophy and popular intellectual culture are far more porous — and politically charged — than orthodox academic history admits. Writing with scholarly precision and a genuine warmth for his subjects, Rée illustrates how class shaped not only access to ideas but the very questions working people thought worth asking. The haunting epigraph — He will be a smart policeman who can arrest the spread of ideas — hangs over every page as a challenge and a promise, leaving the reader to wonder just how far those ideas ultimately travelled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203187777755,"sku":"2026200015185-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4d10d851-1e98-4fbc-b6e5-1ffd6821c8cd.png?v=1788145274","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015185-secondhand-proletarian-philosophers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}