Сочинение: The life and work of the self-employed socialist intellectual, Humphrey McQueen

The life and work of the self-employed socialist intellectual, Humphrey McQueen

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• The life and work of the self-employed socialist intellectual, Humphrey McQueen
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• There is a tradition in academia of dedicating to veteran or retiring scholars a "feschrift", which is usually a collection of essays by other scholars about the scholar's chosen field and their contribution to it. Humphrey McQueen has done his prolific and wide-ranging intellectual work mainly outside academe, and is a self-employed freelance historian and journalist, so he has no institution to give him a feschrift, but some of his writing is available on the web, so Ozleft has put together a list of this material as a kind of virtual feschrift. This is not to suggest that Humphrey may be about to retire, as he shows no sign of running out of intellectual steam and he has no great pot of superannuation to live on in any case. In fact, circumstances have made him into John Howard and Peter Costello's ideal citizen: he is forced both by economic necessity and by the passionate nature of his intellectual activity to work on past the standard retiring age — although the serious products of his work are not likely to please Howard and Costello at all.
• Humphrey McQueen's life
• The mid-1960s: the moment of the radical student movement led by Maoists and Trotskyists
• ASIO and state police Special Branches as our record-keepers
• The decline of the Maoist youth movement
• Humphrey McQueen's complex intellectual development and his prodigious literary activity
• A New Britannia as bestseller
• Humphrey McQueen and the visual arts
• Humphrey McQueen at age about 60 in the year 2004
• Bibliography