Christopher Phelps
Christopher Phelps is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism, class and labor in social thought, the American Left, and race and sexuality in American history. He teaches in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham in England.
Books
Sole author
- Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist, Cornell University Press, 1997; 2d ed., University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Co-authored
- Radicals in America: The US Left Since the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Edited or introduced
- Marxism and America: New Appraisals, University of Manchester, 2021.
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005.
- Race and Revolution, by Max Shachtman, Verso, 2003.
- , by Sidney Hook, Prometheus, 2002.
- From Hegel to Marx, by Sidney Hook, Columbia University Press, 1994.
Selected articles
- , on the legacy of Randolph Bourne, New Politics, 1998