Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory

In this thoughtful and lucid book, C. Fred Alford shows how the psychoanalytic theory of Melanie Klein can be extended to groups and culture and thus can illuminate issues of social theory and moral philosophy of the sort considered by the Frankfurt School. He then applies this expanded theory to the politics of large groups, the appeal of works of art, and the psychological sources of reason.Alford's ideas are interesting and well worked out. The book is good reading for the intelligent layman as well as for the Freudian psychoanalyst.-Elise W. Snyder, M.D., Yale Medical SchoolRegularly consigned to the backwaters of psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein has never received the recognition she deserves for the magnitude of her contributions to the mainstream of psychoanalytic thought. Alford's comprehensive study goes far in redressing this historical injustice, not only demonstrating that Klein's formulations provide the undergirding for many of the new directions in psychoanalysis, but also persuasively demonstrating the importance of her contributions to social and political theory.-Jerrold M. Post, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology, and International Affairs, The George Washington UniversityAlford's is an attractive Panglossian formulation, argued with considerable panache. . . . Alford's book performs a valuable service.-Martin Stanton, Times Higher Education Supplement

This riveting memoir, a primary source for the NBC miniseries Uprising, tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defy the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik (played by Stephen Moyer in the film) and his fellow Jews smuggle in arms and explosives, perform acts of resistance, hold off the Nazi army for almost a month, and rescue the few surviving Jews after the Ghetto is destroyed. Kazik spends the rest of the war helping Jews who still remain in Warsaw, joining the Poles during their ill-fated uprising against the Nazis, and assisting the Polish underground. This shattering tale of courage will change forever the image of how Jews fought and survived during the Holocaust.
A moving record of the greatest heroism and a chronicle of humanity s darkest hour. Adam Le Bor, The Times (London)
This memoir is the most gripping account of wartime guerilla survival against all the odds that I have ever read. It is impossible to put the book down. Robert Carver, The Scotsman
It had me transfixed. I could do nothing else until I finished it and could think of nothing else after I put it down. Chaim Bermant, Literary Review"