{"product_id":"9780889224575","title":"Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove","description":"This volume is a collection of thirty-eight pieces unified by a combination of the playful, primitive aesthetic of literary modernism with the anti-authoritarian, anarchist praxis of radical democratic politics. This bipolar sensibility permeates the work of Jerry Zaslove, to whom the book is dedicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet even if this sensibility pervades the book, the ideas presented here are all animated by highly conflicting attempts to articulate rigorously the anarcho-modernist stance, its literary forms and its political implications and values. In particular, all the contributors explore the fundamental tension that defines our new century—between bureaucratization and industrialization on the one hand, and the critical and autonomous individual on the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe five sections of the work are \u003ci\u003eThe Industrialization of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePublic Education and Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAnarchism and Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever holds together the anarchist solidarity represented in this collection, it isn’t a “principle,” a generality that is made to apply equally to all comers. It’s a particular relation, an affinity, that perhaps can be approached through thinking about friendship as a utopia of the near, the particular, and the concrete—not as a system of generalities for all. This guiding orientation is vital for the reconstruction of a critical theory adequate for our own time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors are all friends, colleagues and collaborators of Jerry Zaslove, many of whom, such as Russell Jacoby, Robin Blaser, Wayne Burns, Harvey Graff, David Kettler, Wolf-Dieter Narr, Jeff Wall and Heribert Adam, are well established and widely recognized in their fields. There are also many newer authors included here whose work is sure to become equally well known over time.","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022735261936,"sku":"9780889224575","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889224575_p0.jpg?v=1763865775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889224575","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}