Screen LibraryThe crisis of theory : EP Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics /
"This book tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of EP Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extrodinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his volumin...
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"This book tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of EP Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extrodinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his littel-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. In a narrative that moves from the battlefields of Spian and Italy to the coal towns of Yorkshire to the bloody chaos of Emergency India, Hamilton present Thompson as a man determined to fin an alternative, in though and in actio, to the ideolofies of Stalinism and right-wing 'Natopolotanism' that together dominated the postwar world ... This book will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in left-wing politics and theory, British societym twentith-century history, modernist poetry and the philosophy of history"--P [4] of jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 293 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-290) and index. |
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0719084350 : 9780719084355 |
| Index Number: | JN1117 |
| CLC: | D756.164 |
| Call Number: | D756.164/H221 |
| Contents: |
The making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism and the 1930s -- Yesterday the struggle: 'outside the whale' and the fight for the 1930s -- A peculiar classic -- Getting out of the tent -- The road to St Paul's -- The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser -- 'Mountainous inconsistency': EP Thompson, Marx and 'the poverty of theory' -- 'Don't tread on me': the other side of Thompson's critique -- Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson -- After St Paul's: EP Thompson's late work -- Conclusion: The last Muggletonian Marxist: EP Thompson's paradoxical triumph. From the 1930s to the Cold War -- New Left, old problems -- Crisis and creavitity -- Making peace. |