
Raids and Reconstructions Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus Publisher: Pluto Press, London, United Kingdom Year Published: 1976 Pages: 312pp ISBN: 0-904383-16-4 Dewey: 320.532 Resource Type: Book
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
Abstract: In this collection of nine essays spanning ten years of his writing career, Enzensberger; a post-war writer, essayist, polemicist and poet who lives in Berlin deals with several crucial issues of our time. In Dreamers of the Absolute he attempts to explain the rise of terrorism. Next, he critiques the state dictatorship of the right and the authoritarianism of the left in power in both Rafael Trjillo: Portrait of a Father of the People and the Portrait of a Party, which discusses the Cuban communist party. In contrast, Industrialization of the Mind and Towards a Theory of Treason discusses mental strait jacketing and revolt. Furthermore, Constituents of a Theory of the Media, A Critique of Political Ecology and Tourists of the Revolution focus on the character of official propaganda, the debate on ecology and the political left#s shortcomings respectively.
[Abstract by Amanpreet Dhami]
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