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    The Dialectics of Liberation

    Part of Radical Thinkers

    Author David Cooper
    Contributions by Stokely Carmichael, R.D. Laing, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Goodman
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    $24.95 US
    Verso Books | Verso
    5.14"W x 7.74"H x 0.61"D   | 8 oz | 40 per carton
    On sale Jun 09, 2015 | 208 Pages | 9781781688915
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    A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades

    The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David Cooper, The Dialectics of Liberation compiles interventions from congress contributors Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Sweezy, and others, to explore the roots of social violence.

    Against a backdrop of rising student frustration, racism, class inequality, and environmental degradation—a setting familiar to readers today—the conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary momentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass society. The Dialectics of Liberation captures the rise of a forceful style of political activity that came to characterize the following years.
    The Dialectics of Liberation is not only excellent in its approach, it is also invaluable in the genuinely new insights it provides in our understanding of man and society and in suggesting the directions which future reorientations of the revolution may have to take.
    —Australian Left Review
    David Cooper (1931–1986) was a South African–born theorist and existential psychiatrist.
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    A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades

    The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David Cooper, The Dialectics of Liberation compiles interventions from congress contributors Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Sweezy, and others, to explore the roots of social violence.

    Against a backdrop of rising student frustration, racism, class inequality, and environmental degradation—a setting familiar to readers today—the conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary momentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass society. The Dialectics of Liberation captures the rise of a forceful style of political activity that came to characterize the following years.

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    The Dialectics of Liberation is not only excellent in its approach, it is also invaluable in the genuinely new insights it provides in our understanding of man and society and in suggesting the directions which future reorientations of the revolution may have to take.
    —Australian Left Review

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    David Cooper (1931–1986) was a South African–born theorist and existential psychiatrist.
    David Cooper View titles by David Cooper

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