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Gail Day shortlisted for prize

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Gail Day’s recently published book, Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) has been shortlisted for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Gail Day’s recently published book, Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) has been shortlisted for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. The Prize is "awarded for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition". Two other works are on the shortlist: Jairus Banaji, Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation (Brill) and Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877 (Brill). The 2011 Prize winner will be announced on 11th November 2011