Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx Abstraction as the 'missing keyword' in Raymond Williams The writing of abstraction in Marx and Marxism Paul C zanne and Barnett Newman compared as writer-artists of abstraction New readings of abstraction and the inhuman in the experimental writing of Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and Samuel Beckett A close study of Beckett's 'Proustian equation' and its role in a transformed thinking of abstraction Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of...