Marshall Berman Libros

Marshall Berman ha reunido en Aventuras marxistas una colección de artículos en los que encontramos análisis muy estimulantes de las obras sobre Marx y el marxismo escritas por Gyorgy Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Meyer Schapiro, Edmund Wilson e Isaac Bábel entre otros. También incluye comentarios sobre autores como Perry Anderson, Studs Terkel y reflexiones sobre la inestimable aportación de Engels y del mismo Marx. Berman ha permanecido ligado al marxismo desde que siendo estudiante de secundaria leyera El manifiesto comunista y, más tarde, siendo ya universitario, leyera los Manuscritos de 1844. En el núcleo del compromiso de Berman con el marxismo está la idea de que, si queremos que esta filosofía siga teniendo importancia en el siglo XXI, tendrá que salirse de su molde actual como instrumento crítico o placer literario. El poder de emancipación del marxismo, su capacidad para configurar un mundo más allá de la pesada tarea diaria de vender el trabajo para sobrevivir, ha de ser renovado. “Berman representa lo mejor de la tradición marxista’. Christopher Hitchens “La audacia de Marshall Berman es admirable... Argumenta con convicción que la teoría marxista de la alienación explica a la perfección las desastrosas consecuencias del capitalismo, tanto si los trabajadores trabajan con un ordenador como en una cadena de montaje”. The New York Times

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Explores the historical experiences and needs out of which the new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a modern form of society was just coming into its own, this book shows how the ideal of authenticity - of a self that could organize the individual's energy and direct it toward his own happiness.

Exploring the vibrant history of Times Square, this book delves into its significant impact on American culture and society. It examines how the area has evolved into a symbol of entertainment and spectacle, reflecting broader social changes. Through engaging narratives, it highlights key events and transformations that have shaped Times Square's identity, making it a focal point of urban life and a mirror of the nation's values and aspirations.

Featuring a diverse array of essays from notable writers like Iain Sinclair, Geoff Dyer, Marshall Berman, and China Mieville, this literary collection explores the evolving nature of urban life. Each piece offers unique insights into the complexities of city transformation, promising to engage readers with thought-provoking perspectives. Anticipated reviews in prominent broadsheets and art magazines highlight the collection's significance in contemporary literature.

Marshall Berman was our Manhattan Socrates: not the arch dialectician but the philosopher in and of the street, not the aggressive asker of questions but the ambler in the boulevard, the man who seeks wisdom in the agora, in the conversation of Times Square, the walker in the city, the man who died among friends. -Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind Marshall resurrected the old medieval maxim Stadtluft macht frei : the air of the city makes us free. He found that freedom everywhere in the busy streets of Manhattan: in the clubs and cafes of Greenwich Village; in the gaudy lights of Times Square; in the Bronx where he grew up, which died and was reborn; in the graffiti scrawled on New York's subway cars; and in the music of the city, from jazz to Broadway to rap. -Michael Walzer, Editor Emeritus of Dissent The departed bard of modernism ... He believed dialogue to be an urgent need in modern times because our subjectivity and inwardness have intensified, a state he called both richer and more lonely. -Brooke Gladstone, cohost of NPR's On the Media Captures both the violent dislocation wrought by political changes and the artistic outputs born out of suffering. Berman's essays make the reader experience historical change as he did-as something urgent, frightening, but also wondrous. With that feeling comes a faint but undeniable hint of possibility. -Max Holleran, New Republic A wonderful collection of Marshall's 'life and times in essays,' a treasure trove of five decades' living and writing for the city, lovingly consecrated by Dissent and Nation editor David Marcus, all done with the blessing of Marshall's widow, Shellie. At last those books-in-progress have been consummated as an organic whole; the incomplete has been posthumously assembled in One Bright Book of Marshall's Life ... Modernism in the Streets makes Marshall whole again, keeps him living, and gives us a new beginning, a genesis. -Andy Merrifield, Jacobin For Marshall, the bad things are always there. The contradictions are always there. The nub of his genius is how he breaks on through to the synthesis at the end of the tunnel. -Robert Christgau, author of Going Into the City There are other writers as intelligent as Marshall Berman, and as able to draw together disparate elements of cultural history into a dazzling new picture, but they seldom sustain the same sense of compassionate warmth toward those who make history. -Rebecca Solnit, author of Nonstop Metropolis Modernism in the Streets is a comprehensive testament to singular style with which Berman espoused, with equal urgency and earnestness, the tragedies and triumphs of modernity, and its continuing impact on the ways we navigate urban space. -Tyler Curtis, The CultureTrip It is the broadness and scale of Berman's vision of modernity that is the power of this collection. -Benjamin Balthaser, Jacobin

Jest coś, pewne je-ne-sais-quoi, co odróżnia książkę Bermana od wszystkich innych interpretacji modernitas i czyni ja naprawdę innych interpretacji modernitas i czyni ją naprawdę wyjątkową: niezwykle rzadka zdolność sięgnięcia do tego, co stanowi wspólny mianownik tak rozmaitych fenomenów nowoczesnych, jak modernistyczna literatura awangardowa z jednej strony, a teoria maszynizacji fabryk w Ameryce lat 50. z drugiej. Przy czym ten wspólny mianownik nie ma u Bermana prostej wykładni redukcyjnej: inaczej niż u wielu marksistów, którzy przyzwyczaili nas do stosunkowo prostej wizji historii, nie da się go wcale sprowadzić do ekonomii politycznej. Tu Marshall Berman, skądinąd jawnie deklarujący swoje przywiązanie do marksistowskiej lewicy, wyraźnie nas zaskakuje: ten wspólny mianownik można bowiem określić wyłącznie w kategoriach doświadczenia duchowego. Opisując - wręcz entuzjastycznie opiewając - ducha nowoczesności, Berman zostawia daleko w tyle nie tylko redukcyjnie myślących marksistów, ale nawet samego Maxa Webera, który przeszedł do historii jako głosiciel prymatu wartości nad bytem.