The Crisis of Theory: E.P. Thompson, the new left and postwar British politics
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1. Verfasser: Hamilton, Scott (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2011
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Beschreibung:Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 From the 1930s to the Cold War; 1. The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism and the 1930s; PART 2 New Left, old problems; 2. Yesterday the struggle: 'Outside the Whale' and the fight for the 1930s; 3. A peculiar classic; 4. Getting out of the tent; PART 3 Crisis and creativity; 5. The road to St Paul's; 6. The eagle and the bustard:EP Thompson and Louis Althusser; 7. 'Mountainous inconsistency':EP Thompson, Marx, and 'The Poverty of Theory'; 8. 'Don't Tread on Me': the other side of Thompson's critique
9. Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP ThompsonPART 4 Making peace; 10. After St Paul's:EP Thompson's late work; Conclusion The last Muggletonian Marxist: EP Thompson's paradoxical triumph; Select bibliography
The crisis of theory tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E.P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his little-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. Hamilton shows the connection between Thompson's famously ferocious attack on the 'Stalinism in theory' of Louis Althusser and his assaults on positivist social science in
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-290) and index
Beschreibung:305 pages
ISBN:9781847794147
1847794149
9781781702338
1781702330

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