it's absorbing enough reading, as absorbing as the Isaiah to which it has often been compared, but the ... the mael­ strom of post-war European thought. This has meant, pretty much Existentialism, but with the ... true of Paul Goodman, who not only is part of the discourse of modem international thought, but who has ...

prefigures of creeping apocalypse, or as Leo Marx began in a review of the book in the Times' Sunday ... Criticism has been to cut art off from the messiness of lives and the incoherence of history ••• The end of ... society?" Marx says later, of this "visionary strain," What distinguishes writers of this ...

Page 195 from Issue 80 doomed, in Barth's historical view, never to act on its own ... vacationing Americans can witness in "historic" towns through­ out the United States: each ... novel's resident radical, in one of Todd Andrews's letters to the Author, lands squarely (and ...

begins by inviting his listener to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the ... Page 189 from Issue 80 Hannah Arendt, in her introduction to Benjamin's essays, mentions ... intellectual who has come to the realization that one must write out of the purest form of "the state ...

bureaucratic State-Marxism. In countries where the Communist Party has been in power for decades Marxism has ... understandably wish to overcome the limitations of conven­ tionalliberalism by radical action. Nevertheless, it ... actually did a great service to the future of Marxist thought, which was already suffocating under the dead ...