Full Description
The New Left was a broad, heterogeneous, transnational, anti-systemic movement of movements which pursued the radical transformation of power structures during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Its activists opposed all forms of oppression - class, racial, gender and so forth - and strove for the redistribution of power on a global scale. Their ideas fuelled the intense cycles of protest of the period and allowed for symbolically connecting movements all over the world.
This book reconstructs the dissemination of the characteristic ideas and traits of the New Left by analysing its most prominent magazines and journals. Through the analysis of US, European and Latin American publications, it reveals how the ideological framework of the New Left was conceived and disseminated by a series of critical communities of activists and intellectuals who communicated and debated across borders. The result of the joint efforts of a group of eminent specialists and young scholars from seven different countries, this pioneering work contributes valuable empirical evidence to the study of the processes of intellectual change occurring throughout the twentieth century.
Contents
Contents: Eduardo Rey Tristán and Alberto Martín Álvarez: Publications, networks and ideological frameworks: Introduction - Alberto Martín Álvarez: Building counter- hegemonic thinking: Intellectuals and critical communities in the rise of the New Left - Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristán: The Algerian Generation and the Third World: A conversation with Gérard Chaliand and Juliette Minces - Kepa Artaraz: Historical and institutional origins of the British New Left: Exploring New Left Review - Selim Nadi: From Algeria to Vietnam: Partisans (1961-1972), a political centre for French Internationalism? - Peter Richardson: Radical slick: The rise and fall of Ramparts magazine (1962-1975) - Gerd- Rainer Horn: The universe of Left Catholic journals: A contribution to the history of the European New Left - Peter Schweppe: Lost in translation?: Kursbuch and the Latin American question - Valeria González Lage: Philosophy in revolution: Dissemination and networks of the Cuban magazine Pensamiento Crítico (1967-1971) - Esteban Javier Campos: Cristianismo y Revolución: A magazine between postconciliar Catholicism, the New Left and revolutionary Peronism - Eudald Cortina Orero and Guillermo Gracia Santos: From rural to urban guerrilla: Debates and diffusion of the Latin American New Left in Punto Final (1965-1973) - Patricia Calvo González: Spreading Cuban Revolution through the journal Tricontinental during its first decade of publication (1967-1977) - Verónica Oikión Solano: The achievements and shortcomings of revolutionary propaganda: Three Mexican leftist magazines - Olivia Gómez Lezama: Cuadernos Políticos: Between theoretical debate and praxis of an unorthodox Marxist Left (1974-1990) - Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristán: Conclusions: Periodicals, critical communities and intellectual networks.
