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Traitor
Andre Gorz
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Description for Traitor
Paperback. Translator(s): Howard, R. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession-The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when André Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu, The Traitor starts from an acute personal crisis, "a state of absolute subjective misery," rooted in social and political alienation. Using psychoanalysis and Marxism, Gorz explores the origins and symptoms of this crisis and struggles towards a resolution which he finds at last in political commitment and self-affirmation.
Few personal documents have ever been so rigorously analytical; few philosophical texts so vividly illuminated by the ... Read more
Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession-The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when André Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu, The Traitor starts from an acute personal crisis, "a state of absolute subjective misery," rooted in social and political alienation. Using psychoanalysis and Marxism, Gorz explores the origins and symptoms of this crisis and struggles towards a resolution which he finds at last in political commitment and self-affirmation.
Few personal documents have ever been so rigorously analytical; few philosophical texts so vividly illuminated by the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860919414
SKU
V9780860919414
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About Andre Gorz
Andre Gorz was born in Austria in 1924, and moved to Paris in 1948, going on to become an editor of Les Temps Modernes. He was one of the founders of Le Nouvel Observateur and wrote for it under the pseudonym of Michel Bosquet for some twenty years. His books Critique of Economic Reason and The Traitor are published by ... Read more
Reviews for Traitor
An unclassifiable classic.
Le Monde
Le Monde