Culture & History: Essays Presented To Jack Lindsay
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
A celebration of one of the twentieth century's most restlessly brilliant minds, Culture & History: Essays Presented to Jack Lindsay is a scholarly tribute that honours the extraordinary intellectual legacy of Jack Lindsay — novelist, poet, classical scholar, Marxist thinker, and cultural historian of rare breadth. Assembled by editor Bernard Smith, this prestigious Festschrift gathers a distinguished company of contributors whose essays span the full sweep of Lindsay's prodigious interests, from the art and literature of the ancient world to the social and political currents of modern culture, constituting a rich and layered portrait of a man who defied easy categorisation. The collection stands as a significant work of cultural and literary history in its own right, presenting penetrating arguments about the relationship between art, society, and historical forces — themes that animated Lindsay's own writing throughout his long career. Bernard Smith, himself a towering figure in Australian art history, brings rigorous editorial authority to the volume, ensuring each contribution speaks to the connective tissue of ideas that defined Lindsay's worldview. Whether you are a scholar of classical antiquity, a student of Marxist aesthetics, or a reader drawn to the grand tradition of humanist inquiry, this volume promises to provoke, illuminate, and endure.
Author: Bernard Smith (Editor)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Hale & Iremonger
Genre: Essays
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
A celebration of one of the twentieth century's most restlessly brilliant minds, Culture & History: Essays Presented to Jack Lindsay is a scholarly tribute that honours the extraordinary intellectual legacy of Jack Lindsay — novelist, poet, classical scholar, Marxist thinker, and cultural historian of rare breadth. Assembled by editor Bernard Smith, this prestigious Festschrift gathers a distinguished company of contributors whose essays span the full sweep of Lindsay's prodigious interests, from the art and literature of the ancient world to the social and political currents of modern culture, constituting a rich and layered portrait of a man who defied easy categorisation. The collection stands as a significant work of cultural and literary history in its own right, presenting penetrating arguments about the relationship between art, society, and historical forces — themes that animated Lindsay's own writing throughout his long career. Bernard Smith, himself a towering figure in Australian art history, brings rigorous editorial authority to the volume, ensuring each contribution speaks to the connective tissue of ideas that defined Lindsay's worldview. Whether you are a scholar of classical antiquity, a student of Marxist aesthetics, or a reader drawn to the grand tradition of humanist inquiry, this volume promises to provoke, illuminate, and endure.