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Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past
Essays on Marxism and History
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Davidson discusses how Marxism can retain a sense of historical tradition without becoming fossilized.
Features in the International Socialist Review and the Socialist Worker Ads in the International Socialist Review and the Socialist Worker in as well as other academic and activist conferences and events.
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Neil Davidson explores classic themes in historical materialism and Marxism as he explains concepts such as the moments of transition from the dominance of one mode of production to another (industrialisation), and the process of social revolution which has always accompanied these transitions (unionisation).
He delves into the problem of nationalism, both as a theoretical challenge to Marxism's capacity for historical explanation and as a practical obstacle to socialist consciousness.
Holding Fast to an Image of the Past is a fresh take on the history of Marxism.
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Neil Davidson's Holding Fast to an Image of the Past is praised for its insightful and non-dogmatic essays on Marxist and radical political thought. The book explores influential thinkers through a broad historical lens, combining intellectual depth with an engaging analysis. Reviewers have highlighted the collection's originality and its contribution to British Marxist historiography, making it an essential read for those interested in political theory and history.
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ISBN: 9781608463336
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 May 2014
Country: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 592g
Pages: 426
About the Author
Neil Davidson is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000), Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher Prize, and How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (2012). Davidson lectures in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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