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    From dialectics to dancing: Reading, writing and the experience of the everyday life in the diaries of Frank P. Forster

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    Authors
    Feely, Catherine
    Affiliation
    University of Manchester
    Issue Date
    2010-03
    
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    Abstract
    This article is an examination of the reading and writing practices of Frank Forster (1910-98), a casual labourer and Communist autodidact, as revealed in the diaries he kept between 1934 and 1938. One of the most influential texts Forster encountered during this period was The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, written by Joseph Dietzgen (1828-88), a German tanner who had also independently developed a Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism. Dietzgen's work on the relationship between thought and experience appealed enormously to autodidact sensibilities. Recording his reading at the same time as other activities, such as cinema attendance and dancing, Forster was able to reshape Dietzgen's ideas so that he could apply them to the issues most immediately important to him, particularly the pursuit of social and sexual experience. This seemingly idiosyncratic understanding of ‘the dialectic’ can only be understood in the particular context of Forster's life, locality and time. His diaries deserve wider attention as compelling evidence of how one individual combined theory with everyday life to create his own form of ‘self-help’.
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    Feely, C. (2010), 'From Dialectics to Dancing: Reading, Writing and the Experience of Everyday Life in the Diaries of Frank P. Forster', History Workshop Journal, 69(1), pp. 90-110.
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Journal
    History Workshop Journal
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621142
    DOI
    10.1093/hwj/dbp030
    Additional Links
    https://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/content/69/1/90.abstract
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    13633554
    EISSN
    14774569
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1093/hwj/dbp030
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