Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today

Joel Kovel has been Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, in Annandale, New York, since 1988. He was awarded a Fellowship at the John Guggenheim Foundation in 1987. In 1988, Kovel was a New York candidate for nomination for President of the United States, on both occasions representing the Green Party. He lectures widely and has appeared on radio and television broadcasts in the USA, Canada, the UK, south Africa and Australia. Since the 1960s, he has published numerous journal articles on topics related to psychoanalysis and psychiatry “his original area of study), as well as politics and ecology. His recent books include: Red Hunting in the Promised Land (1997), History and Spirit (1998), In Nicaragua (1988), The Radical Spirit Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society (1988), White Racism: A Psychohistory (1984), The Age of Desire (19181).