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Christopher Caudwell

Born

in The United Kingdom

October 20, 1907

Died

February 12, 1937

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Christopher Caudwell is the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg a British Marxist writer, thinker and poet.

He was born into a Roman Catholic family, resident at 53 Montserrat Road, Putney. He was educated at the Benedictine Ealing Priory School, but left school at the age of 15 after his father, Stanhope Sprigg, lost his job as literary editor of the Daily Express. Caudwell moved with his father to Bradford and began work as a reporter for the Yorkshire Observer. He made his way to Marxism and set about rethinking everything in light of it, from poetry to philosophy to physics, later joining the Communist Party of Great Britain in Poplar, London.

In December 1936 he drove an ambulance to Spain and joined the International Brigades there ...more

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	Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry 4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crisis in Physics 3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1939 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Studies in a Dying Culture by Christopher Caudwell, John Strachey (Introduction) 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture by Christopher Caudwell, S. Yurick (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell by Christopher Caudwell, David Margolies (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature by Christopher Caudwell, Samuel Hynes (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The concept of freedom 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems, 1924-1936 by Christopher Caudwell, Alan Young (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Further Studies in a Dying Culture 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consciousness: A Study in Bourgeois Philosophy 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.”
― Christopher Caudwell, Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry

tags: aesthetic, art, beauty, economics, poetry, truth

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“We must change the world in order to change ourselves”
― Christopher Caudwell, Studies in a Dying Culture

tags: inspirational-quotes

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“The bourgeois biologist wastes his time in seeking a general explanation for the change of living matter. The dialectical biologist seeks no such general explanation for a change in any part of reality, for change is what reality is. What the dialectical biologist seeks is the determining relations between the new qualities emerging in that change.”
― Christopher Caudwell, Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell

tags: biology, dialectical-materialism, marxism, science

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