Polemic (magazine)

Polemic was a British "Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics" published between 1945 and 1947, which aimed to be a general or non-specialist intellectual periodical.[1]

Edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater,[2] it was "sympathetic to science, hostile to the intellectual manifestations of romanticism, and markedly anti-Communist. Eight issues were published.[1] The first, published as a book to get round the prohibition of new journals imposed by war-time paper rationing, included contributions by Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, Stephen Spender, Stephen Glover, George Orwell, C. E. M. Joad and Rupert Crawshay-Williams.[1]

Orwell contributed five essays over the life of the magazine and Russell and Ayer contributed four each. Other contributors included Philip Toynbee, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Dylan Thomas, Diana Witherby, Stuart Hampshire, Geoffrey Grigson, Ben Nicholson, Adrian Stokes, J. D. Bernal[3] C. H. Waddington[4] and John Wisdom.

Orwell's essays

"Notes on Nationalism" (Polemic, No 1 - October 1945 - written in May 1945)[5]
"The Prevention of Literature" (Polemic, No 2 - January 1946)[4]
"Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (Polemic, No 3 - May 1946)[4]
"Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (Polemic, No 5 - September–October 1946)[4]
"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (Polemic, No 7)[4]
Orwell also contributed an (unsigned) editorial to (Polemic, No 3 - May 1946)[4]

gollark: I mean, nowadays you can get 128 cores in a single server, and it doesn't even cost that many kidneys.

gollark: Why would you want that?

gollark: I think a few decadollars per day, yes.

gollark: The reason for it over here is sensible if probably annoying for said students: they can charge exactly £9250/year to domestic students, which is magically loaned to you by the government, but no such restrictions exist for international students.

gollark: I guess so. At least I'm not an international student.

References

Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN 0-19-929105-5, ISBN 978-0-19-929105-2
Art-Historical Notes: "Where are the Hirsts of the 1930s now?" The Independent, Nov 13, 1998 by David Buckman
The Guardian
Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose (1945-1950) (Penguin)
Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 3: As I Please (1943-1945) (Penguin)

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[Absent_Minds-1] Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN 0-19-929105-5, ISBN 978-0-19-929105-2

[2] Art-Historical Notes: "Where are the Hirsts of the 1930s now?" The Independent, Nov 13, 1998 by David Buckman

[3] The Guardian

[In_Front_of_Your_Nose-4] Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose (1945-1950) (Penguin)

[As_I_Please-5] Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 3: As I Please (1943-1945) (Penguin)

Polemic (magazine)

Orwell's essays

See also

References