The Dialectics of Liberation (Radical Thinkers)

by Mr David Cooper

Stokely Carmichael, R D Laing, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Goodman, Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture), David Cooper (Editor), Lucien Goldmann, Paul Sweezy, Gregory Bateson, John Gerassi, and Jules Henry

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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.
  • ISBN10 1781688915
  • ISBN13 9781781688915
  • Publish Date 9 June 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Verso Books