Herman Gorter's Books

Selected Poems

Translated by Lloyd Haft

By: Herman Gorter

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Selected Poems

Translated by Lloyd Haft

By: Herman Gorter

This is the most extensive selection in English of poems by one of the all-time great Dutch poets, Herman Gorter (1864-1927). A companion volume to M. Kruijff's translation of the epic May, this book welcomes the reader to the rich spectrum of Gorter's lyric verse. The selection traces the stages of Gorter's career as a poet. It opens with 22 poems from his introvertive 'sensitivist' Verses (Verzen, 1890) which have been called the beginning of modern Dutch poetry. These are followed by poems from later collections in which Gorter was transitioning to a less self- and more world-focused perspective. In the subsequent passages from the long epic Pan (1912/1916), he has clearly become a 'socialist' poet, albeit in a unique visionary sense. He is now pursuing a theme which will obsess him for the rest of his life: how to address the object of his love as both an individual woman and an incarnate summation of all humanity. The rest of the book comprises the first publication in English of Gorter's little-known last work Lyrics (Liedjes,1930). Haft's judicious abridgment reserves the structure, erotic themes, and lyric high points of this outstanding sequence which originally occupied three volumes. In Haft's version, Gorter sounds the way he should sound: musical and sensitive, at times groping, at other times jubilant, always sure of himself and amazing. For readers of English it will be a feast to be able to make his acquaintance via this translation. - Piet Gerbrandy, winner of the Herman Gorter Prize

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9083133664

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9789083133669

The Council Communist Reader

By: Paul Mattick,Otto Rühle,Karl Korsch,Herman Gorter,Franz Pfemert,Anton Pannekoek

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The Council Communist Reader

By: Paul Mattick,Otto Rühle,Karl Korsch,Herman Gorter,Franz Pfemert,Anton Pannekoek

'Workers' councils' does not designate a fixed form of organization, elaborated once and for all and for which all that remains is to perfect its details; it concerns a principle, that of workers' self management of the enterprise and of production. The realization of this principle can never occur through a theoretical discussion concerning the best means of execution. It is a question of the practical struggle against the apparatus of capitalist domination." - Anton Pannekoek The Council Communist Reader is a collection of selected writings from a few council communists. Council Communism emerged in Holland and Germany in the 1920's as an alternative to Bolshevik and Marxist-Leninist thought up to the Third International. Council Communist theory was derived from workers' experiences in the German Revolution of 1918, the early years of the Weimar Republic, and the study of the early council movements in Russia in 1905 and 1917. They sought not to impose a kind of organization upon the workers' movement, but instead to uplift the form of "councils" as spontaneous and self-emancipatory for the working class. This was a throughline for the council communists to connect back to Marx's understanding of proletarian revolution in maintaining "the emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves." Council communism was not to be a new ideology for the working class, but to take a critique of state socialism back to the roots of self-emancipation towards theoretical coherence which can combat all forms that hinder emancipation and move this theoretical coherence into practice. From this, and their understanding revolutionary consciousness develops as a result of crisis, revolution is not a choice but a necessity. The works included in this book have been chosen to reflect the developments of Council Communism over decades; this is not an exhaustive, encyclopedic collection of all councilist texts, but a collection of key texts. This book in the Radical Reprint series from Pattern Books is made to be accessible and as close to manufacturing cost as possible.

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5143124174

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May

An epic poem about youth

By: Herman Gorter

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May

An epic poem about youth

By: Herman Gorter

May describes the magical journey of adolescence against the background of Holland's flowery dunescapes. In strokes of wonder-filled impressions a stunningly unspoiled girl, May, explores the promise of springtime and the intense spiritual life of youth. However, the cycle of life always moves on, and as May matures and returns to earth, she finds it readying for summer. When Herman Gorter published May (Dutch: Mei) in 1889, this spontaneous and vibrant epic poem was immediately recognized by his peers as a landmark of Dutch literature. Inspired in part by John Keats' Endymion (1818), the poem touches upon a wide range of themes, including the innocence and wonder of childhood, the hubris and disillusionment of adolescence, unattainable divine love and the inevitability of transience, The work suggests that poetry itself may be the only way to preserve for eternity the essence of nature and of music. May was perhaps an inevitable product of the artistically revolutionary and highly lucid spirit in The Netherlands of the 1880s. While Gorter's contemporary, Vincent Van Gogh, had just completed the groundbreaking Sunflowers series of paintings, Gorter succeeded with May in composing his own monument of colourful and innovative power. English-only, illustrated eBook, second (revised) edition. With foreword by Lloyd Haft and introduction by the translator, M. Kruijff. A synopsis is included.

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Selected Poems

Translated by Lloyd Haft

By: Herman Gorter

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Principles of Metabolic Control in Mammalian Systems

By: Herman

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Principles of Metabolic Control in Mammalian Systems

By: Herman

In this work we present the basic principles of metabolic control which we hope will serve as a foundation for the vast array of factual matter which the biochemist and the physician engaged in metabolic research must accumulate. Accordingly, we attempt to set forth these principles, along with sufficient explanation, so that the reader may apply them to the ever-expanding literature of biochemistry. If we are successful, this will provide a theoretical approach which can be applied to any given set of metabolic reactions. It is impossible to enumerate each and every biochemical reaction and pathway since such a work would be too unwieldy for efficient use. Rather, we hope our presentation of the principles of metabolic control will be sufficiently basic to be of lasting usefulness no matter how detailed biochemistry may become. We would like to be able to con dense biochemistry into a theoretical biology that will not only allow for the general treatment of any given reaction but will enable predic tions to be made as to the existence of necessary pathways and the con sequences of altered control. Such is not possible today, but this may be accomplished in the future. We believe it is now possible to institute the beginnings of such a theoretical biology.

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1461330068

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9781461330066

A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War

Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, Its Enemies, Its Friends, 1939-1945)

By: Herman van der Wee,Monique Verbreyt

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A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War

Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, Its Enemies, Its Friends, 1939-1945)

By: Herman van der Wee,Monique Verbreyt

This monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium's monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium's financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the study focuses on the roles played by the Central Bank and private bankers in Brussels, by the Belgian government in exile in London, and by the Belgian minister plenipotentiary in New York. Among the subjects arising are: German attempts to plunder Belgium and Belgian resistance strategies; the peripeteia of the Belgian gold reserve; the role of the Belgian Congo; Belgium's participation in the discussions leading up to the Bretton Woods conference; and the negotiations for creating a Customs Union, blueprint for the 1958 Treaty of Rome. The final part of the book analyzes the famous monetary reform devised by Belgian Minister of Finance Camille Gutt at the liberation of the country in September 1944.

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Leuven University Press

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9058677591

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9789058677594

Language Decline and Death in Africa

Causes, Consequences, and Challenges

By: Herman Batibo

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Language Decline and Death in Africa

Causes, Consequences, and Challenges

By: Herman Batibo

The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853598089

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Muscarinic Receptors in Airways Diseases

By: Johan Zaagsma,Herman Meurs,Ad F. Roffel

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Muscarinic Receptors in Airways Diseases

By: Johan Zaagsma,Herman Meurs,Ad F. Roffel

What are the different muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes and how are they distributed in the airways and molecular signalling mechanisms? What is their function in neurogenic and non-neurogenic control of the airways and in inflammatory mechanisms? How is their gene expression regulated? The great importance of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors for the pathophysiology and treatment of chronic inflammatory obstructive airways diseases calls for a comprehensive and integrated overview of the current knowledge to address such questions, to discuss the role of these receptor subtypes in diseases such as asthma and COPD, and to present novel perspectives on antimuscarinic drug development. The present book is the worthy result of this need. It points out innovative insights into the hitherto poorly understood role of postjunctional muscarinic M2 receptors in airway smooth muscle contraction and sheds some light on the novel concepts of antimuscarinic drug development, with special reference to the l

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3764359889

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Journey of Faith in a Hostile World

Memoirs Of Herman Jantzen

By: Herman Jantzen

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Memoirs Of Herman Jantzen

By: Herman Jantzen

HERMAN JANTZEN (1866-1959) WAS A LINGUIST! GROWING UP IN THE MENNONITE VILLAGE OF HANSAU, IN THE TRACT, IN SAMARA PROVINCE, RUSSIA, HE LEARNED THE LOWLAND DIALECT AT HOME, GERMAN IN SCHOOL, AND RUSSSIAN FROM HIS FATHER'S HIRED HANDS. IN 1880, HIS FATHER WAS THE LEADER OF THE FIRST WAGON TRAIN OF 10 MENNONITE FAMILIES GOING EAST, SEEKING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. FOURTEEN YEAR OLD HERMAN DROVE THE LEAD WAGON. IN KASABINSK, THE FIRST TURKESTANI CITY AND FORT, A WELL EDUCATED YOUNG SARTER, ASKED PERMISSION TO TRAVEL WITH THEM. SEATED BESIDE YOUNG HERMAN ON THE WAGON SEAT, HE BECAME THAT YOUNG MAN'S FIRST UZBECK-TURKISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR! BY THE TIME HE WAS 19, HE WAS SO FLUENT IN THAT LANGUAGE THAT THE LOCAL RULER APPOINTED HIM INTERPRETER IN THE ROYAL COURT!

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0595476589

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9780595476589

Open Letter to Comrade Lenin

By: Herman Gorter

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Open Letter to Comrade Lenin

By: Herman Gorter

The relatively unknown public response to Vladimir Lenin's famous pamphlet "Ultra Left Communism: An Infantile Disorder." Herman Gorter (1864 - 1927) was a Dutch poet and socialist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s, centered around De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide). Gorter shared in common with the Tachtigers an interest in leftist politics, and became the most politically involved of the group, becoming an active writer on socialist theory. He joined the Social Democratic Labour Party (Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij or SDAP) in 1897. In 1909 he participated in a schism from the SDAP to form the Social-Democratic Party (Sociaal-Democratische Partij) of the Netherlands. He wrote a massive new epic poem called Pan in 1912, describing the First World War being followed by a global Socialist revolution. In 1917, he hailed the Russian revolution as the beginning of that global revolution, although he soon afterward came to oppose Lenin. In 1918 the Social-Democratic Party changed its name to the Communist Party of Holland (Communistische Partij Holland), and in 1919 Gorter left the party. In 1921 he was a founding member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany, joining its Essen Faction and becoming a leading supporter of the Communist Workers International. Gorter died in Brussels in 1927.

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1467903248

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9781467903240

May

An epic poem about youth

By: Herman Gorter

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An epic poem about youth

By: Herman Gorter

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The Council Communist Reader

By: Paul Mattick,Otto Rühle,Karl Korsch,Herman Gorter,Franz Pfemert,Anton Pannekoek

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By: Paul Mattick,Otto Rühle,Karl Korsch,Herman Gorter,Franz Pfemert,Anton Pannekoek

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

The Council Communist Reader

The Council Communist Reader

May

May

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Principles of Metabolic Control in Mammalian Systems

Principles of Metabolic Control in Mammalian Systems

A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War

A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War

Language Decline and Death in Africa

Language Decline and Death in Africa

Muscarinic Receptors in Airways Diseases

Muscarinic Receptors in Airways Diseases

Journey of Faith in a Hostile World

Journey of Faith in a Hostile World

Open Letter to Comrade Lenin

Open Letter to Comrade Lenin

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May

The Council Communist Reader

The Council Communist Reader

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