Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 397 pages. Some staining and wear to the covers, pages have some discoloring, a sound binding; good other than a strong cigarette smell. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Politics; ISBN: 0878553800. ISBN/EAN: 9780878553808. Inventory No: 225012.
Verlag: New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Books, 1982, 1982
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
torn dust-jacket with long tears repaired on reverse with tape but still looks good, very good white cloth BUT with a very slight waviness to the inner margin of the pages, appears only very lightly used. BARBER, BENJAMIN R., 1939- / MCGRATH, MICHAEL J. GARGAS, 1942-, ed. . The Artist and political vision. Edited by Benjamin R. Barber, Michael J. Gargas McGrath. New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Books, 1982, x, 397pp., . CONTENTS: Part I: The artist in the continental tradition. Rousseau and Brecht: Political virtue and the tragic imagination / Benjamin R. Barber ; Baudelaire: Modernism in the streets / Marshall Berman ; Dostoevsky and Unamuno: The anti-modern personality / Michael A. Weinstein ; Camus: The absurdity of politics / Lyman Tower Sargent ; Trotsky and Malraux: The political imagination / Marc Scheinman ; Hermann Hesse: Passion and politics / Samuel H. Hines, Jr. -- Part II: The artist in the English-speaking world. Shakespeare: Poetic understanding and comic action / Richard H. Cox ; Shakespeare: Elizabethan statecraft and Machiavellianism / Tracy B. Strong ; Joyce: Political development and the aesthetic of Dubliners / Paul Delany ; Fenimore Cooper: Natty Bumppo and the Godfather / Wilson Carey McWilliams ; Melville: Billy Budd and the context of political rule / James R. Hurtgen ; Mark Twain: Technology, social change, and political power / Molly Lyndon Shanley and Peter G. Stillman ; Faulkner, Naipaul and Zola: Violence and the novel / Peter C. Sederberg ; Frank Capra: Politics and film / Morris Dicksteind ; Orwell: Ethics and politics in the pre-Nineteen eighty-four writings / David Lowenthal ; Kesey and Vonnegut: The critique of liberal democracry in contemporary literature / Michael J. Gargas McGrath. 9780878553808 ISBN 0878553800.