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The Classless Left. On a Certain Tradition of Politically Engaged Criticism from the Turn of the Century

Author(s): Paweł Kaczmarski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Marxism; class; the left; political transformation; literary criticism

Summary/Abstract: The paper identifies (selected) reasons and strategies of removing the notion of class from Polish critical-literary discourse after 1989, especially a certain tradition of non-Marxist leftist criticism defined by Maria Janion, Kinga Dunin and Igor Stokfiszewski. The paper shows how a general vision of the world and politics implicitly outlined in the works of those critics excludes the possibility to meaningfully use the notion of class.Marxismclass

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 28-29
  • Page Range: 152-169
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English