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300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its initial release in 1719, discussions have surrounded the novels depiction of individual solitude and work, colonial and racial relations, and mankinds relationship with the rest of the animal world. To this day, Crusoes depiction of self-reliance and rugged individualism is often idealized in economics textbooks, mainstream politics, and popular culture. But many have also criticized this approach, most notably Karl Marx, who was one of the first in decrying the efforts of classical economists to extract the rational actor and marginalist calculator from the island castaway without reference to social history. Alongside a precis with surprising revelations for those not familiar with the detail of the story, and a rich biographical sketch of its creator, Crusoe and His Consequences draws on a range of writers, including Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas, to bring the debates surrounding Defoes first novel vividly to life. ----- No-one writing today in English on Latin America can match Dunkerleys mix of deep conviction, k

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Author

Defoe, Daniel;Dunkerley, James

Publisher

OR Books - CBSD

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781682192054

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Biography