Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism by Sheehan, Helena
Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism by Sheehan, Helena

Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism

The first biography of Helena Sheehan, Irish-American Marxist feminist activist Why would an American girl-child, born into...
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Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism by Sheehan, Helena

Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism

$89.65
Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism by Sheehan, Helena

Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism

$89.65
Author: Helena Sheehan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The first biography of Helena Sheehan, Irish-American Marxist feminist activist

Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, entered a convent - morph into an atheist, feminist, and Marxist? The answer is in Helena Sheehan's fascinating account of her journey from her 1940s and 1950s beginnings, into the turbulent 1960s, when the Vietnam War, black power, and women's liberation rocked her bedrock assumptions and prompted a volley of life-upending questions - questions shared by millions of young people of her generation. But, for Helena Sheehan, the increasingly radicalized answers deepened through the following decades.

Beginning by overturning such certainties as America-is-the-world's-greatest-country and the-Church-is-infallible, Sheehan went on to embrace existentialism, philosophical pragmatism, the new left, and eventually Marxism. Migrating from the United States to Ireland, she became involved with Irish republicanism and international communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Sheehan's narrative vividly captures the global sweep and contradictions of second-wave feminism, antiwar activism, national liberation movements, and international communism in Eastern and Western Europe - as well as the quieter intellectual ferment of individuals living through these times. Navigating the Zeitgeist is an eloquently articulated voyage from faith to enlightenment to historical materialism that informs as well as entertains. This is the story of a well-lived political and philosophical life, told by a woman who continues to interrogate her times.

Author: Helena Sheehan
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 03/25/2019
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781583677278

About the Author
Sheehan, Helena: - Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History and Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories, as well as magazine articles on politics, culture, and philosophy.
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