Brian Lloyd
Brian Lloyd is the author of Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1900-1922, as well as assorted articles on philosophy and the American left. He is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Riverside, and is currently engaged in a study of the interplay between political aspirations and formal innovations in 1960s rock and roll.
‘Rude music’, empathy, and the case for localism
The publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 rattled the foundations of religious belief in every corner of the book-reading world. We know a good bit about the debates that ensued because they still flare up wherever there are people who insist on the literal truth of the origins myth found in the…
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