Free shipping on all items to the UK. Carefully packed and prompt delivery.             

A ONE-MAN MANIFESTO: and other writings for Freedom Press

Price: £7.50
or click to buy via Amazon
ISBN 10: 
0 900384 72 7
Number of pages: 
205
First published: 
1994 as born
This edition: 
1994
Blurb: 

Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a poet, literary critic, educationalist, philosopher, art critic, historian of and, above all, propagandist for modern art and design. He was also an anarchist.

From his declaration of anarchism in 1937 until his acceptance of knighthood in 1953, Read contributed to Freedom and its precursors (Spain and the World, Revolt! And War Commentary) articles, book reviews and poems. This volume reprints all these, most for the first time since their original publication, together with three of his pamphlets for Freedom Press: The Education of Free Men,  Freedom: Is It a Crime? and  Art and the Evolution of Man.

In total, the contents range across most of his interests and constitute a very attractive, frequently perceptive and sometimes profound One-Man Manifesto. 
 

Contents: 

Introduction by David Goodway

  1.   'The Prerequisites of Peace’, Spain and the World, Supplement, May 1938 (extracted from Poetry and                          Anarchism      (1938))
  2.   'Berneri’s Creed’ (translation), Spain and the World, 20 May 1938 (printed in full in The Knapsack (1939))
  3.   The Method of Revolution', Spain and the World, 16 September 1938
  4.   The Method of Revolution: An Answer’ Spain and the World, 12 November 1938
  5.   The Open Fields System’, Spain and the World, Supplement , December 1938
  6.   ‘Lament for Spain’, Spain and the World, 23 December 1938
  7.   ‘Nearer to Reality’, Revolt!, 11 February 1939
  8.   'Democratic Hospitality’, Revolt!, 1 May 1939
  9.   ‘The Russian Terror’, War Commentary, September 1940
10.   ‘Use of Land’, War Commentary, November 1940
11.   ’Eric Gill: Anarchist’, War Commentary, February 1941
12.   ‘Bedlam Politics’, address to the inaugural meeting of the Friends of Freedom Press, 28 September  1941         (printed in War Commentary, November 1941)
13.   The Education of Free Men (Freedom Press, 1944) (reprinted in Education for Peace (1950) and The         Redemption of the Robot (1966))
14.   Speech before the trial of the editors of War Commentary, (printed in War Commentary, 21 April 1945, and         Freedom: Is it a Crime? (Freedom Press Defence Committee, 1945))
15.   Speech after the trial (from  Freedom: Is it a Crime?)
16.   ‘Amnesty Campaign’, Freedom, 25 August 1945
17.   'The Centenary of  The Ego and His Own’, Freedom, 27 July 1946 (reprinted in The Tenth Muse (1957)
18.   ‘Neither Communism Nor Liberalism’, BBC talk (printed in Freedom, 4 January 1947)
19.   ’Anarchism: Past and Future’, lecture to the London Anarchists (printed in Freedom, 17 May 1947)
20.   'The Problem of War and Peace’, BBC talk (printed in Freedom, 20 September 1947)
21.   ‘The End of an Age’,  Freedom, 13 November 1948
22.’   Jankel Adler: The Artist’, Freedom, 28 May 1949
23.   ‘Culture and Religion', BBC talk (printed in Freedom, 23 July, 6 August 1949)
24.   ’Americanism’, Freedom, 1 April 1950
25.   ‘Marie Louise Berneri’, Freedom, 15 April 1950
26.   ‘The Utopian Mentality’,  Freedom, 23 December 1950
27.   ‘A One-Man Manifesto’, Freedom, 3 March 1951
28.  ‘The Death of Kropotkin’, Freedom, 31 March 1951 (reprinted in Moon’s Farm (1955) and Collected Poems))
29.   Art and the Evolution of Man (Freedom Press, 1951) (Conway Memorial Lecture, 10 April 1951)
30.  ‘Kicks and Ha’Pence’, Freedom, 2 June 1951
31.  ‘Kicks and Ha’Pence: Machinism’, Freedom, 7 July, 1951
32.  ‘Kicks and Ha’Pence’, Freedom, 18 August 1951
33.  ‘The Problem of Survival’, BBC talk (printed in Freedom, 29 September 1951)
34.  ’Postscript to Posterity’, Freedom, 1 March 1952
35.  ‘Ancient War and Modern Peace’, Freedom, 15 March 1952
36.  'The Ape of Hitler’, Freedom, 29 March 1952
37.  ‘We Protest Against this Spanish Tyranny...’, speech at London protest meeting (printed in Freedom, 5 April        1952
38.   'Beyond Nihilism’, Freedom, 30 August 1952 (reprinted as Foreword to the English translation of Albert Camus,         The Rebel (1953))
39.   ‘A Statesman’, Freedom, 17 January 1953  
 

Biographical note(s): 

David Goodway is Lecturer in History, Department of Adult Continuing Education, University of Leeds, he contributes a lengthy introduction.