Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities

Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 450
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789004325210
ISBN-13 : 9004325212
Rating : 4/5 (212 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities by : Darko Suvin

Download or read book Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities written by Darko Suvin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia – including its achievements and degeneration – to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx’s great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question.


Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities Related Books

Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Darko Suvin
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-27 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the p
Disputing the Deluge
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Darko Suvin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-02 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of scifi to utopian studies, formalist and leftist
The Justice of Humans
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Kirsten Campbell
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Justice for conflict-related sexual violence remains a critical problem for global society today. This ground-breaking book addresses pressing questions for 'in
Socialist Practice
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Victor Wallis
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The level of popular discontent—in the United States as elsewhere—has shown a dramatic increase in recent years, but has yet to crystallize into a cohesive
Art Work
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Katja Praznik
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-29 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern