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Stark says he had little political exposure until he joined Carter's campaign. During his years here, he read Kant and Hegel, "because it ties together the different facets of knowledge," says he acted in a few plays at the Loeb, participated mildly in the anti-war student strike of late '69 and "got a great education...
...almost every way except the direction of their intellectual development. Eastman, a genial, flamboyant libertine, translated Marx's Capital into English, as he did many of the works of Trotsky, his intellectual mentor. He edited two communist journals, The Masses and The Liberator, and became a learned exegete of Hegel. Herberg, a lower-class Jew whose parents emigrated from Russia, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia in 1932, by which time he had gained a reputation in radical circles as a complex and formidable thinker. Dos Passos, the illegitimate son of a corporate lawyer who refused to acknowledge...
...book has other flaws. While Diggins is capable of a sophisticated discussion of Eastman's critiques of Hegel, he is also prone to the most inane nonsense, as when he asks, "If communism ultimately brought Herberg to religion and to William Buckley, should Buckley thank Stalin for doing God's work?" What difference does it make? In his concluding chapter, "Conservative Paradoxes", Diggins remarks that "In Nixon's heralded detente with Russia and China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian...
...this point in the essay, Marcus compares Dickens's unwillingness to confront the constraints imposed upon the self by the social world with Hegel's insistence that true freedom can only be realized through the experience of its negation, of oppression. Marcus goes on to argue that Dickens placed this experience of negation and the pursuit of true human freedom it implices at the core of his novelistic career. Marcus's achievement here is threefold: he has shown how the self-contained world of language gives way to the social world for Dickens, how literary analysis must lead into...
...been treated as a political mystery-land is in a way unfortunate for the Rabin government, since within the last month an internal personnel change has taken place which might be a signal for a major change in policy. Shlomo Avineri, a noted scholar of Marx and Hegel who served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was appointed Director-General of the Foreign Ministry, Israel's second ranking foreign affairs post. Avineri is extremely dovish by Israeli standards--in a recent issue of Foreign Policy he expressed support for return...