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Author / Creator:	Cavalletti, Andrea, author.
Uniform title:	Classe. English
Imprint:	London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2019. ©2019
Description:	177 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Italian list Italian list.
Subject:	Social classes. Class consciousness. Social conflict. Social classes. Social conflict.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11973399

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Other authors / contributors:	Fiaccadori, Elisa, translator. Toscano, Alberto, 1977- editor, writer of afterword.
ISBN:	9780857424372 0857424378 9780857424631
Notes:	Originally published: Torino : Bollati Boringhieri, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-177). Translated from the Italian.
Summary:	"In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns-- the hatred of minorities is rekindled and the pied-pipers of the crowd stand triumphant. 'Class', by Andrea Cavalletti, is a striking montage of diverse materials-- Marx and Jules Verne, Benjamin and Gabriel Tarde. In it, Cavalletti asks whether the untimely concept of class is once again thinkable. Faced with new pogroms and state racism, he challenges us to imagine a movement that would unsettle and eventually destroy the crowd"--
Other form:	Ebook version : 9780857424631

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