In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis
Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary
thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar
Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and
1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham,
and up to the advent of Thatcherism, Dworkin shows this history to
be one of a coherent intellectual tradition, a tradition that
represents an implicit and explicit theoretical effort to resolve
the crisis of the postwar British Left. Limited to neither a single
discipline nor a particular intellectual figure, this book
comprehensively views British cultural Marxism in terms of the
dialogue between historians and the originators of cultural studies
and in its relationship to the new left and feminist movements.
From the contributions of Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill, Rodney
Hilton, Sheila Rowbotham, Catherine Hall, and E. P. Thompson to
those of Perry Anderson, Barbara Taylor, Raymond Williams, Dick
Hebdige, and Stuart Hall, Dworkin examines the debates over issues
of culture and society, structure and agency, experience and
ideology, and theory and practice. The rise, demise, and
reorganization of journals such as The Reasoner, The New Reasoner,
Universities and Left Review, New Left Review, Past and Present,
are also part of the history told in this volume. In every
instance, the focus of Dworkin's attention is the intellectual work
seen in its political context. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
captures the excitement and commitment that more than one
generation of historians, literary critics, art historians,
philosophers, and cultural theorists have felt about an unorthodox
and critical tradition of Marxist theory.
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