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This volume gathers together some of Sprinker’s best work: his recent writings, such as “The Grand Hotel Abyss,“ on Marxist revolutionary aesthetics; the essays like “You've Got a Lot of Nerve,” which raise urgent questions about what activist responsibilities should be shouldered by those claiming to be politically radical intellectuals; his sensitive and diligent readings of exemplary Third- and First-World texts, such as those on Said, Ahmad and Jameson; and finally a section which depicts the course of his own intellectual-political journey. The book closes with a brief collection of his correspondence, witness to the righteous savagery, insight and extraordinary generosity displayed so often in the letters which were central to his friendships and his life.
With a preface by Aijaz Ahmad and an afterword by Fred Pfeil, A Singular Voice is a memorial to a luminous figure on the US Left.
Michael Sprinker, who died in 1999, was an editor for New Left Review and Verso, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of History and Ideology in Proust and Imaginary Relations, as well as the editor of Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida’s ‘Specters of Marx’.
“A unique and extraordinary figure on the U.S. Marxist intellectual Left.” — Alan Wald
July 2001
320 pages
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