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This book argues that a renewed consideration of artistic value
should both critique contemporary bureaucratic misunderstandings of
what art is and address the complexities and questions of
contemporary philosophers in new and provocative ways. Writer and
poet Ali Alizadeh focusses on the artistic theories of the key
Western philosopher of value, Karl Marx. He explores Marx's
thoughts on art and literature and provides a new account of his
revolutionary view of why we make art and how we understand art's
value. By returning to Marx's writings, from his juvenile poetry
and earliest journalism to his final publications, Alizadeh
proposes a theory which not only challenges many tenets of
contemporary Marxist literary or cultural theory, but one which
also presents us with a profound, coherent and stimulating theory
of art that defines, values and demonstrates artistic practice. By
mapping Marx's intellectual development from the ideals of a young
Hegelian to the polemics of a seasoned internationalist communist
he shows that Marx never lost sight of art as a key aspect of human
activity.
This book argues that a renewed consideration of artistic value
should both critique contemporary bureaucratic misunderstandings of
what art is and address the complexities and questions of
contemporary philosophers in new and provocative ways. Writer and
poet Ali Alizadeh focusses on the artistic theories of the key
Western philosopher of value, Karl Marx. He explores Marx's
thoughts on art and literature and provides a new account of his
revolutionary view of why we make art and how we understand art's
value. By returning to Marx's writings, from his juvenile poetry
and earliest journalism to his final publications, Alizadeh
proposes a theory which not only challenges many tenets of
contemporary Marxist literary or cultural theory, but one which
also presents us with a profound, coherent and stimulating theory
of art that defines, values and demonstrates artistic practice. By
mapping Marx's intellectual development from the ideals of a young
Hegelian to the polemics of a seasoned internationalist communist
he shows that Marx never lost sight of art as a key aspect of human
activity.
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Fifty Poems of Attar (Paperback)
Farid al-Din Attar; Edited by Kenneth Avery, Ali Alizadeh; Translated by Kenneth Avery, Ali Alizadeh
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The great 13th century Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar is renowned as
an author of superb short lyrics written in the Persian language.
Dealing with themes of love, passion and mysticism, the versions
presented in this book are the first sustained offerings of Attar s
lyric poetry in English. Award-winning Iranian-born poet, Ali
Alizadeh, and Persian specialist, Kenneth Avery, have collaborated
on this project which aims to bring this remarkably vigorous yet
subtle poetry to an English reading audience. The translations are
accompanied by the Persian texts themselves, and explanatory notes,
and are set in the context of his life and times by an illuminating
introductory chapter. An original analysis of Attar s poetic
language and thought is also offered. Attar, who lived in Nishapur
until his death in 1220, was a complex personality, a brilliant
storyteller and poet in both lyric and epic forms, and a creative
and original Sufi thinker. His ideas range over the whole spectrum
of Persian mysticism and religious philosophy, and his writing
paved the way for the triumphs of Rumi and Hafiz. His ideas and
exquisite verse deserve a wider circulation than has been accorded
them until now, and this book seeks to present his poetry in an
attractive way.
Edited and translated by the internationally renowned poet John
Kinsella and the Iranian-born poet and translator Ali Alizadeh, Six
Vowels and Twenty-three Consonants is a groundbreaking new
collection of poems presenting the wealth of poetic voices from one
of the world's most important literary cultures. The book covers
poetry from the early Middle Ages to the Modernists and
Postmodernists of the 20th and 21st centuries. No other culture in
the world has produced such quantity and quality of mystical poetry
and true spiritual vision as the Persian tradition. In this poetry
there is an effulgence of meaning; nearly every word resonates with
chords of allusion and multiple signification. Whether we read a
modern poet or one of the classics, this resonance reaches back to
the beginnings of the tradition, and it touches us today.
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