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When Marx Mattered - An Intellectual Odyssey (Hardcover)
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When Marx Mattered - An Intellectual Odyssey (Hardcover)
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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 teenage encounter with Marxism and how it provided
some understanding of the world and hope for peace. Bershady gives
us a serious portrayal of the evolution of scholarly judgment, but
also a social history of the second half of the twentieth century,
refracted through the author's own experiences in which Jewish
Americans played an important but under-appreciated part. Along the
way, the author corrects the misapprehension that Jewish or
non-Jewish American political radicals only evolve into
conservatives. Through his own mistakes and hard-won lessons,
Bershady shows the power, importance, and morality that
intellectual standards play in enabling an intellectual to achieve
sound and fair judgments. Bershady firmly believes that his
achievements in the social sciences are grounded in the fact that
he also studied philosophy, literature, and history--all of which
immeasurably deepened his understanding of social life. The
generational portrait in this book is both an homage to those who
preceded him and a hope for educational broadening of social
science in the generation to come.
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