Rethinking the Socialist Intellectual in the British First New Left
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8408808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Scott-Brown (0000-0003-3892-5984, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 591-608 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071005.2022.2131733 |
| OpenAlex | W4306944077 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
The first British New Left formed in response to a crisis in international and British socialism. Although never a formal movement, its associated members set themselves the tasks of, first, confronting the rapid change transforming social life at both global and national scales, and second, articulating a new political culture able to accommodate the good and resist the bad of it. As part of this process, a series of intense debates took place on the role of the socialist intellectual in stimulating such a culture. In this article, I consider three of the NL’s main protagonists, EP Thompson, Stuart Hall, and Raphael Samuel, and the different positions they took on this issue. I argue here that while all made important contributions to the argument, Samuel’s practice as an intellectual, currently the least well known of the three, is worth closer attention for its relevance to contemporary educational debates
Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · New Left · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law) · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci
Making of the English Working Class
Class, Culture and Social Change
Radical History Review
Arguing Affluence
Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”
The First New Left
Affluence’ and the Left in Britain, c .1958–1974
Reappraising British socialist humanism
The Lonely Crowd
The authors and the actors of their own drama
Among the Ordinary People
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |