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Culture and Materialism

By Raymond Williams

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2010
ISBN
1844676633, 9781844676637
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3639378 bytes)
Edition
Verso Radical Thinkers Classics
Pages
320\0
Time added
2019-12-31 06:34:00

Description

Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the approach that has come to be known as “cultural materialism.” Yet Williams’s method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year period in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship. Aside from his more directly theoretical texts, however, case-studies of theatrical naturalism, the Bloomsbury group, advertising, science fiction, and the Welsh novel are also included as illustrations of the method at work. Finally, Williams’s identity as an active socialist, rather than simply an academic, is captured by two unambiguously political pieces on the past, present and future of Marxism.

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