Eric Laursen

The Duty To Stand Aside

Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort

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Produktbeschreibung

Two prominent frenemies agree on the duty of intellectuals in society, if little else.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 136mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9781849353182
• ISBN-10: 1849353182
• Artikelnr.: 48923615

Autorenporträt

Eric Laursen is an independent journalist, activist, and commentator. He is the author of The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan (AK Press, 2012), a BookList Editor's Choice selection; and co-author of Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull Press, Spring 2010), which tells the story of the 2008 economic meltdown in text-and-graphics format. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Nation, The Village Voice, In These Times, Z Magazine, The Indypendent, HuffingtonPost.com, and The Arkansas Review. He is currently writing a biography of Alex Comfort. A graduate of Columbia University, he lives in Buckland, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
II. A Clash of Temperaments
III. A Public "Set-To"
IV. A Disagreement in Verse
V. Finding Common Ground
VI. The Sociopathic State
VII. The "Snitch List"
VIII. The Nonconformist and the Duty-Bound
IX. Conclusion
Index