The Crisis of Theory

E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics

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ID19972000
AuthorsScott Hamilton (0000-0002-9117-9573, corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages293
Publication date2011-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCrisis of Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWinchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7228/manchester/9780719084355.001.0001
OpenAlexW4205701399
ISBN9780719084355
Open LibraryOL25079267M
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This book tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of Edward Palmer Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. It shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his little-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. The book demonstrates the connection between Thompson's famously ferocious attack on the ‘Stalinism in theory’ of Louis Althusser and his assaults on positivist social science in such books as The making of the English working class, and produces evidence to show that Thompson's hostility to both left- and right-wing forms of authoritarianism was rooted in first-hand experience of violent political repression

Adventure · Art · Art history · Authoritarianism · Democracy · Epistemology · Hostility · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology · Social Psychology · 1924-1993 · E. P. Thompson (1924-1993) · Great britain · politics and government · Right and left (Political science) · Socialism · Thompson, e. p. (edward palmer)

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