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Navigating the Zeitgeist - A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism (Hardcover)
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Navigating the Zeitgeist - A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism (Hardcover)
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Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic
family in the thick of the McCarthy era – a girl who, when she
came of age, entered a convent – morph into an atheist, feminist,
and Marxist? The answer is in Helena Sheehan’s fascinating
account of her journey from her 1940s and 1950s beginnings, into
the turbulent 1960s, when the Vietnam War, black power, and
women’s liberation rocked her bedrock assumptions and prompted a
volley of life-upending questions – questions shared by millions
of young people of her generation. But, for Helena Sheehan, the
increasingly radicalized answers deepened through the following
decades. Beginning by overturning such certainties as
America-is-the-world’s-greatest-country and
the-Church-is-infallible, Sheehan went on to embrace
existentialism, philosophical pragmatism, the new left, and
eventually Marxism. Migrating from the United States to Ireland,
she became involved with Irish republicanism and international
communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Sheehan’s narrative vividly
captures the global sweep and contradictions of second-wave
feminism, anti-war activism, national liberation movements, and
international communism in Eastern and Western Europe – as well
as the quieter intellectual ferment of individuals living through
these times. Navigating the Zeitgeist is an eloquently articulated
voyage from faith to enlightenment to historical materialism that
informs as well as entertains. This is the story of a well-lived
political and philosophical life, told by a woman who continues to
interrogate her times.
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