
Building the Radical Identity
The Diffusion of the Ideological Framework of the New Left
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 22. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
502 pages
978-1-80079-131-2 (ISBN)
Description
The New Left was a broad, heterogeneous, transnational, anti-systemic movement of movements which pursued the radical transformation of power structures during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Its activists opposed all forms of oppression - class, racial, gender and so forth - and strove for the redistribution of power on a global scale. Their ideas fuelled the intense cycles of protest of the period and allowed for symbolically connecting movements all over the world.
This book reconstructs the dissemination of the characteristic ideas and traits of the New Left by analysing its most prominent magazines and journals. Through the analysis of US, European and Latin American publications, it reveals how the ideological framework of the New Left was conceived and disseminated by a series of critical communities of activists and intellectuals who communicated and debated across borders. The result of the joint efforts of a group of eminent specialists and young scholars from seven different countries, this pioneering work contributes valuable empirical evidence to the study of the processes of intellectual change occurring throughout the twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
<<Building the Radical Identity meticulously weaves a tapestry portraying the mutual impact of magazines, publishing houses and movements on three continents during the Global Sixties. By focusing on transnational relationships of theory and practice, the authors demonstrate that the New Left was much more than spontaneously generated popular insurgencies, that the international revolutionary movement had well developed theoretical roots and visions, and that its impact went far beyond temporal boundaries. The authors transform the New Left's quest to radically reconstruct all aspects of social and political life from historical fact to future promise. Unafraid neither to reexamine violent opposition to reactionary regimes nor to subject the1960s corpus of ideas to critical analysis, this book is must reading for revolutionaries today.>>(George Katsiaficas, author of The Global Imagination of 1968, Asia's Unknown Uprisings, and coeditor with Kathleen Cleaver of Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party.)
<<At a time when, across the world, economic and political crises are driving new generations to seek out new radical ideas, but also even to reconsider some older radicalisms, this book's appearance is highly pertinent, reminding us of the global impact of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s, i.e., a new way of thinking which posed an intellectual and ideological challenge to the sterile interpretations offered by both social democracy and Soviet-style communism. The collection brings us several eloquent examples of the force of that challenge, in particular in the Third World, where it contributed profoundly to shaping new definitions and self-definitions of the postcolonial world, including the genesis of today's notion of the Global South. The several authors, experts in their particular fields, combine to give us a rich and revealing picture of the wide range of thinking characterising what was then a complex phenomenon.>>
(Antoni Kapcia, Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham and author of Cuba: Island of Dreams and Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties.)
<<For those seeking to understand the complex history of the Global Sixties, this collection will be indispensable. Radical journals with Tricontinental and North/South readerships were the main transmission belts of the New Left, and they are examined here with great assiduity.>>
(Van Gosse, Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College and author of Rethinking the New Left. An Interpretative History.)
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
25 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
762 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80079-131-2 (9781800791312)
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Eduardo Rey Tristán | Alberto Martín Álvarez
Building the Radical Identity
The Diffusion of the Ideological Framework of the New Left
E-Book
08/2022
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€45.49
Available for download

Eduardo Rey Tristán | Alberto Martín Álvarez
Building the Radical Identity
The Diffusion of the Ideological Framework of the New Left
E-Book
08/2022
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€45.49
Available for download
Persons
Eduardo Rey Tristán is full professor of History of Latin America at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is the author of La izquierda revolucionaria uruguaya, 1955-1973 (2006) and coeditor of Latin American Guerrilla Movements. Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020) and Revolutionary Violence and the New Left. Transnational Perspectives (2017).
Alberto Martín Álvarez is distinguished professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Girona, Spain, is coeditor of Toward a Global History of Latin America´s Revolutionary Left (2021), Latin American Guerrilla Movements. Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020) and Revolutionary Violence and the New Left. Transnational Perspectives (2017).
Content
Contents: Eduardo Rey Tristan and Alberto Martin Alvarez: Publications, networks and ideological frameworks: Introduction - Alberto Martin Alvarez: Building counter- hegemonic thinking: Intellectuals and critical communities in the rise of the New Left - Alberto Martin Alvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristan: The Algerian Generation and the Third World: A conversation with Gerard Chaliand and Juliette Minces - Kepa Artaraz: Historical and institutional origins of the British New Left: Exploring New Left Review - Selim Nadi: From Algeria to Vietnam: Partisans (1961-1972), a political centre for French Internationalism? - Peter Richardson: Radical slick: The rise and fall of Ramparts magazine (1962-1975) - Gerd- Rainer Horn: The universe of Left Catholic journals: A contribution to the history of the European New Left - Peter Schweppe: Lost in translation?: Kursbuch and the Latin American question - Valeria Gonzalez Lage: Philosophy in revolution: Dissemination and networks of the Cuban magazine Pensamiento Critico (1967-1971) - Esteban Javier Campos: Cristianismo y Revolucion: A magazine between postconciliar Catholicism, the New Left and revolutionary Peronism - Eudald Cortina Orero and Guillermo Gracia Santos: From rural to urban guerrilla: Debates and diffusion of the Latin American New Left in Punto Final (1965-1973) - Patricia Calvo Gonzalez: Spreading Cuban Revolution through the journal Tricontinental during its first decade of publication (1967-1977) - Veronica Oikion Solano: The achievements and shortcomings of revolutionary propaganda: Three Mexican leftist magazines - Olivia Gomez Lezama: Cuadernos Politicos: Between theoretical debate and praxis of an unorthodox Marxist Left (1974-1990) - Alberto Martin Alvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristan: Conclusions: Periodicals, critical communities and intellectual networks.