Part I. Studies in a dying culture -- D.H. Lawrence: a study of the bourgeois artist -- Freud: a study in bourgeois psychology -- Liberty: a study in bourgeois illusion -- Part II. Illusion and reality -- The birth of poetry -- The death of mythology -- The development of modern poetry -- English poets I: the period of primitive accumulation -- English poets II: the Industrial Revolution -- English poets III: the decline of capitalism -- The movement of bourgeois poetry -- The world and the 'I' -- Part III. 'Heredity and development' -- Heredity and development: a study of bourgeois biology.
Summary:
Culture as politics introduces the most accessible and relevant works of Christopher Caudwell, considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century. Caldwell had a powerful interest in how things worked - aeronautics, physics, human psychology, language, and society. In the anti-fascist struggles of the 1930s he saw that capitalism was a system that could not work properly and distorted the thinking of the age. Self-educated from the age of 15, he wrote with a directness that is alien to most cultural theory. Although already a published writer of aeronautic texts and crime fiction, he was practically unknown to the public until reviews appeared of Illusion and reality: a study of the sources of poetry. A strikingly original study of poetry's role, the book explained in clear language how the organizing of emotion in society plays a part in social change and development. Material in this collection is drawn from Illusion and reality among other texts.
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