Navigating the Zeitgeist
a story of the cold war, the new left, irish republicanism, and international communism
$58.90
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2019
Summary
Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era – a girl who, when she came of age, entered a convent – morph into an atheist, feminist, and Marxist?The answer is in Helena Sheehan’s fascinating account of her journey from her 1940s and 1950s beginnings, into the turbulent 1960s, when the Vietnam War, black power, and women’s liberation rocked her bedrock assumptions and prompted a volley of life-upending questions – questions shared …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583677278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583677275 |
| Author: | Helena Sheehan |
| Publisher: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“An uncompromisingly honest and utterly fascinating memoir from the drowned continent that was once western communism.” —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums
About The Author
Helena Sheehan
Helena Sheehan is Professor Emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History, Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories, and The Syriza Wave, as well as journal articles on politics, culture, and philosophy.
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