Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives: A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures

Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives: A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures

by Tony McKenna
Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives: A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures

Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives: A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures

by Tony McKenna

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Overview

A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Angels and Demons offers a series of profiles of historical figures both old and new. Using a Marxist analysis, the author adduces the particularities of each individual personality from the crest of living history which brings it to the fore, showing with each of the figures examined how the art, politics and creativity of their lives is infused by the rhythm and contradictions of the broader historical backdrop. The angels in the collection are Hugo Chavez, Andrea Dworkin, Rembrandt, Victor Hugo, Jeremy Corbyn and William Blake. The demons are Donald Trump, Christopher Hitchens, Arthur Schopenhauer and Hillary Clinton.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789040203
Publisher: Hunt, John Publishing
Publication date: 04/01/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tony McKenna is a philosopher and journalist whose work has been featured on websites and in magazines and journals internationally, including Al Jazeera, New Statesman, ABC Australia and The Huffington Post. He is the author of Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective. McKenna lives in Kent, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Victor Hugo: Bard of the Barricades 16

Chapter 2 Hugo Chavez in the Light of the Mass Movement 48

Chapter 3 Christopher Hitchens: Pathology of an Imperialist Ideologue 70

Chapter 4 All Around are Familiar Faces: Rembrandt and the Portrait of Modernity 84

Chapter 5 Arthur Schopenhauer: The Philosophy of Nothingness 112

Chapter 6 Donald Trump: The Pantomime President 140

Chapter 7 Andrea Dworkin: Radicalism Raised to Art 160

Chapter 8 William Blake: Avenging Angel 178

Chapter 9 The Political Psyche of Hillary Rodham Clinton 204

Chapter 10 Chronicle of a Coup Foretold: The Backlash against Jeremy Corbyn 218

Endnotes 242

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