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> Some discussion of the metaphysical foundations of science can be found
> in Christopher Caudwell's "Illusion and Relaity."
E.P. Thompson in a Socialist Register in the 70's wrote a great piece on Caudwell. Collected here, Thompson, E.P. Making History: Writings on History and Culture. New York: The New Press, 1994. See pp. 78-140. Dumain below posts an excerpt of The following is an extract from, "Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History by Helena Sheehan (Humanities Press International 1985 and 1993), http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/caudwell.htm
Christopher Caudwell was the pen name of Christopher St. John Sprigg, British Marxist writer who died in the Spanish Civil War. http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/caudwell.html CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
compiled by Ralph Dumain
BOOKS BY CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL (1907-1937) (Pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg)
Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet: 1986.
The Concept of Freedom. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977.
The Crisis in Physics, edited with an introduction by Professor H[yman] Levy. London: John Lane, 1939 [repr. 1949].
Illusion and Reality; a Study of the Sources of Poetry. New York: International Publishers, 1967.
Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature, edited by Samuel Hynes. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1970.
Scenes and Actions: Unpublished Manuscripts, selected, edited, and introduced by Jean Duparc and David Margolies. London: New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture, introduction by Sol Yurick. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. [Reprint of Studies in a Dying Culture (1938) & Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949)]
This My Hand [novel]. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1936.
[Note: The author also published several books of crime fiction and on aeronautics under his real name.]
STUDIES OF CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL
Margolies, David N. The Function of Literature: A Study of Christopher Caudwell's Aesthetics. New York: International Publishers, 1969.
Sheehan, Helena. Marxism and the Philosophy of Science. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985. See pp. 350-385. [See web page link below.]
Thompson, E.P. Making History: Writings on History and Culture. New York: The New Press, 1994. See pp. 78-140. Here is Thompson at his most philosophically insightful and brilliant, possibly the best analytical synopsis of Caudwell.
[There are other critiques, studies, debates, and some other recent monographs on Caudwell, but these sources are the best and most readily available introductions.]
LINKS
Christopher Caudwell (1907-1937) by Helena Sheehan http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/caudwell.htm Jarama: Where Caudwell died
(Compiled & uploaded 1 August 2000)
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