1st Edition

When Marx Mattered An Intellectual Odyssey

By Doris Fine, Harold J. Bershady Copyright 2014
281 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

A beautifully written, trenchant, and moving memoir, When Marx Mattered follows Harold J. Bershady's odyssey from childhood through his coming of intellectual age. The wounds and pleasures of his childhood include fear of Nazis, poverty, the joys and constraints of Jewishness, his caring family and love of music, and the confusion surrounding World War II. In this book, Bershady describes his... Read more

Introduction

1 Personal Background and Setting
2 Theory and Hope
3 Theory and Practice
4 Illusion and Reality
5 McCarthy, Philosophy, and the Jewish Question
6 Other Discoveries
7 Mannheim, Morality, and Neo-Marxism
8 The New Left
9 Penn Sociology in the Age of Aquarius: 1960 1965
10 Pot and Protest
11 Negation of the Negation
12 Emanations
13 Der Alter Goy
14 The More Things Change . . .
15 We Happy Few

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Index

Biography

Harold J. Bershady