Proletarian Days (Paperback)

Nathan Jun

ISBN 10: 184935328X / ISBN 13: 9781849353281

Published by AK Press, Edinburgh, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. Hippolyte Havel was a Czech anarchist who lived most of his life in New York City. He wrote dozens of articles and was a major infuence on many artists and radicals. Leading figure in pre-WWI American anarchism, originator of Greenwich Village bohemianism, companion of Emma Goldman, and inspiration to artists and intellectuals, Hippolyte Havel was widely read in his day. He is known in fragments as someone who appears in the biographies of others, but little has been written about Havel himself, and his work has never been collected before. Havel's writing provides a valuable window onto the culture of his time. The first collection of influential anarchist Hippolyte Havel's works. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proletarian Days (Paperback)
• Publisher: AK Press, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184935328X
• ISBN 13: 9781849353281
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

The first collection of writings by Hippolyte Havel, a figure at the center of New York's turn-of-the-century political and artistic circles.

A prolific writer and tireless activist, Havel (1871–1950) contributed dozens of articles, essays, and reviews to anarchist periodicals, including Emma Goldman's Mother Earth. His influence on several writers, artists, and intellectuals (e.g., Eugene O'Neill, Joseph Stieglitz, Sadakichi Hartmann, etc.) helped shape American modernism. Proletarian Days renews his legacy and demonstrates his influence on international revolutionary politics, the development of modern art and literature, and the culture of twentieth-century America.

Featuring an introduction by historian Barry Pateman.

About the Author

Hippolyte Havel was a Czech anarchist who lived most of his life in New York City. Editor of numerous publications, including Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, he wrote dozens of articles and was a major influence on many artists and radicals of his day.

Nathan Jun is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Midwestern State University. He is the author of Anarchism and Political Modernity (2011).

Barry Pateman formerly curated the Emma Goldman Papers Archive at the University of California Berkeley and co-edited Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.