Scott Hamilton

The Crisis of Theory (eBook, ePUB)

E.P. Thompson, the new left and postwar British politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an intellectual biography of EP Thompson, as well as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge: as such, it considers not just Thompson's ideas and arguments, but also the question of why he adopted those ideas, and made those arguments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797902
• Artikelnr.: 42371163

Autorenporträt

Scott Hamilton is a writer and researcher based in New Zealand and has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Auckland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One: From the thirties to the Cold War 1. The making of
EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism, and the thirties Part Two: New Left, old
problems 2. Yesterday the struggle: 'Outside the Whale' and the fight for
the thirties 3. A peculiar classic 4. Getting out of the tent Part Three:
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 Thompson Part Four: Making peace 10. After St
Paul's: EP Thompson's late work Conclusion: The last Muggletonian Marxist:
The paradoxical triumph of EP Thompson Bibliography Index