Raoul Vaneigem

George Woodcock

Tony Gibson

Herman J. Schuurman

André Thirion

Essays Againt the Sale of Life

Never Work

"The essential introduction to the classical anarchist thinkers." - Mark Leier, Simon Fraser University

A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements

Anarchism

Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics)

Alev Türker

Anarşizm : bir dusunce hareketinin tarihi

História das Idéias e Movimentos Anarquistas Vol. 1

The Anarchist Reader

Écrit dans les années 1960 puis revu et augmenté en 1989, ce livre monumental offre le récit de l’une des plus grandes aventures des xixe et xxe siècles, celle de l’anarchie. Woodcock y raconte le mouvement, ses victoires, ses défaites, mais il y expose surtout les idées des principales figures qui ont façonné la pensée libertaire, de William Godwin à Emma Goldman. Au-delà de l’engagement intellectuel, politique et moral de ces personnages historiques plus grands que nature, L’anarchisme brosse un portrait vivant de leur combat et des profonds idéaux de liberté qui n’ont jamais cessé de l’animer. Considéré aujourd’hui comme un classique de l’histoire de l’anarchisme et pourtant traduit ici pour la première fois en français, L’anarchisme expose les perspectives d’une aspiration partagée aujourd’hui par un nombre toujours grandissant de personnes éprises de justice et d’autonomie.

Une histoire des idées et mouvements libertaires

L'anarchisme

“‘Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist,’ said Sebastien Faure. The definition is tempting in its simplicity, but simplicity is the first thing to guard against in writing a history of anarchism. Few doctrines or movements have been so confusedly understood in the public mind, and few have presented in their own variety of approach and action so much excuse for confusion.” These are the opening sentences of this book, which brilliantly effaces confusion by providing a critical history of anarchist thought and practice. Mr. Woodcock traces the development of anarchism from its earliest appearances, and the rise and fall of anarchism as a movement aiming at practical social changes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He discusses the ideas of the principal anarchist thinkers—Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tolstoy, among others—and explains the various forms—anarchist individualism, anarchist communism, anarcho-syndicalism—that anarchist proposals for change have taken. The development of anarchist organizations, the various forms (peaceful and violent) of anarchist political action in Europe and America, the reasons for the appeal of anarchism at certain periods and to certain people—all these are given full treatment in Mr. Woodcock’s comprehensive work, which closes with a discussion of the causes of anarchism’s failure as a movement and with a consideration of whether there are any elements in anarchist thought that—despite the failure of anarchism as a political panacea—may still be worth preserving in the modern world. “The essential introduction to the classical anarchist thinkers.”—Mark Leier, Director, Centre for Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University

The Cherry Tree on Cherry Street and Other Poems

Anarchy Or Chaos

During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893--1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist, novelist and biographer, critic of art, literature, and life, aesthetic philosopher and revolutionary theorist of education, Read was in a unique place as an interpreter of his time, for few writers have probed so deeply into the nature of the prevailing culture, and none brought together the insights of modern philosophers and critics, poets and artists, psychologists and social scientists, as Read did. Best known as an art critic, as a follower of the theories of Carl Jung, Read was a pioneer in the English-speaking world in the use of psychoanalysis as a tool for art and literary criticism. Although knighted by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1953 for "services to literature," Read regarded himself, politically, as an anarchist. This work, by fellow anarchist George Woodcock, is a critical study of the intellectual career of Herbert Read, as well as a thorough study of Read's criticism, creative writing, art theory, and anarchist philosophy. Woodcock does not divide Read's writings on politics from those on art and culture as Read saw art, culture, and politics as a single expression of human consciousness. Comprehensive and authoritative, it is an impressive volume that presents a unified portrait of one of England's most distinguished twentieth-century critics.

The Stream and the Source

Herbert Read

Regionalism in Canadian Literature

The Meeting of Time and Space

With compassion and honesty, George Woodcock presents Malcolm Lowry: the man and his works. The portrait that emerges depicts a series of complex and destructive relationships that lead to an existential exploration of alienation, exile, and identity and to what many critics regard as some of the finest writing to come out of the twentieth century. This compelling collection of essays provides considerable insight into the challenges Lowry set for himself—as an artist and as a man. The first section of the book, “The Works,” considers all of Lowry's fiction and the evolution of his style as he struggled to find the form appropriate to a new approach to reality. The influences that shaped his world and gave form to his work are considered in the second section, “The Man and the Sources.” From Lowry's love of jazz and the cinema, to the books he read, Woodcock follows Lowry's life: a life marked by violent alcoholism, two unstable marriages, and stints in jails and mental institutions as he drifted to and from London, Paris, New York, and Mexico. Contributors include: Robert B. Heilman, Anthony R. Kilgallin, George Woodcock, Geoffrey Durrant, David Benham, Matthew Corrigan, Conrad Aiken, Hilda Thomas, Downif Kirk, W.H. New, Perle Epstein, William McConnell, and Maurice J. Carey. George Woodcock (1912–1995)—award-winning poet, author, and essayist and widely known as a literary journalist and historian—published more than ninety titles on history, biography, philosophy, poetry, and literary criticism.

The Man and His Work

Malcolm Lowry

The Sixties; Writers and Writing of the Decade

George Woodcock, critique littéraire, historien et anarchiste, a eu un accès privilégié à la complexe histoire personnelle de George Orwell, dont il fut un ami proche. Rassemblant souvenirs, lettres et divers témoignages, cette biographie situe l’œuvre d’Orwell dans son contexte personnel, politique et littéraire. Elle offre une perspective à la fois intimiste et documentée sur la vie et les écrits de cet esprit libre, ne faisant l’impasse sur aucun des paradoxes qui habitent l’une et l’autre. Alors que George Orwell est remis au goût du jour tant à gauche qu’à droite, et que prolifèrent les fake news, la novlangue et de nouvelles formes de contrôle technoscientifiques, cette biographie littéraire – la seule à avoir été écrite de première main – arrive à point nommé. Par l’élégance de son écriture et l’accès privilégié qu’il offre à son sujet, Woodcock brosse ici un portrait inédit de celui qui fut bien plus que l’auteur de la dystopie 1984.

La vie et l'œuvre d'un esprit libre

Orwell, à sa guise

The selections in this survey of the narrative and lyric poets of Confederation and the later nineteenth century have been chosen to remind readers of the distances and diversities involved as Canadians struggled toward nationhood. Along with essays on Sangster and Mair, the first poets consciously writing of the Canadian scene and the Canadian identity, there are individual studies of Crawford, Roberts, Lampman, Scott and Service. Some of the authors analyse a single work in a poet's canon; others consider several themes or evaluate a poet's philosophical or religious position. To these essays are added three by Norman Newton, George Woodcock and Roy Daniells on the era of "high colonialism". The book contains ten pieces published in the journal Canadian Literature over the last thirteen years and five new ones written specifically to enhance this collection.

Early Canadian Poets and Their Background

Colony and Confederation

A collection of essays which presents the author's reflections on life, literature and travel.

Powers of Observation

Por el lugar que ocupa en la historia de las grandes transformaciones sociales de nuestra época, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi es una figura de indiscutible interés. Aunque la evolución del proceso emancipador de los países del Tercer Mundo ha seguido caminos muy diversos -cuando no contrapuestos-, conocer la aportación política y humana de Gandhi a esa tarea supone entender uno de los grandes legados a la lucha por la libertad. Desde su nacimiento en 1869 y sus estudios en Londres hasta su asesinato en 1948, pasando por sus huelgas de hambre y sus campañas de desobediencia civil, he aquí un fiel retrato del Mahatma Gandhi, un verdadero "conductor de hombres" y un mártir que encarnó el ansia liberadora de su pueblo.

Gandhi

Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book contains clear information on a major Canadian novel. Attractively produced, they contain a chronology of the author's life, information on the importance of the book and its critical reception, an in-depth reading of the text, and a selected list of works cited.

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