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The 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 Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his volum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, Scott, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From the 1930s to the Cold War
  • New Left, old problems
  • Crisis and creativity
  • Making peace.
  • 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.