• ISBN13: 9781032180458
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 136
• Original Price: GBP 21.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 620 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

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.

Cavalletti, Andrea: - Andrea Cavalletti teaches the history of medieval philosophy at the University of Verona. His books available in English translation include Class and Vertigo: The Temptation of Identity.

Toscano, Alberto: - Alberto Toscano teaches at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Fanaticism and Late Fascism and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism.