The literature of socialism is lost only in the sense of not having been read for a very long time. George Watson has been re-reading this literature as a professional literary critic, with-Antony Fle
Heresies & Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century is an enjoyably iconoclastic book in which George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the heretics who
'Critical theorists in our time sought foundations of knowledge because they knew there were none to be found, and critical scepticism became a convenient way of burying evidence and saving face. By n
Examines the foundation texts of socialism. The author asserts that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantagous to the p