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OverviewThe crisis of theory tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. 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 Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his little-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. Hamilton shows the connection between Thompson's famously ferocious attack on the 'Stalinism in theory' of Louis Althusser and his assaults on positivist social science in books like The making of the English working class, and he produces previously unseen 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. This book will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in left-wing politics and theory, British society, twentieth-century history, modernist poetry, and the philosophy of history. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Scott Hamilton , Rebecca MortimerPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780719084355ISBN 10: 0719084350 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 May 2011 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: from the Thirties to the Cold War 1. The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism, and the thirties Part Two: New Left, Old Problems 2. Yesterday the struggle: 'Outside the Whale' and the fight for the thirties 3. A peculiar classic 4. Getting out of the tent Part Three: Crisis and Creativity 5. The road to St Paul's 6. The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser 7. 'Mountainous inconsistency': EP Thompson, Marx, and 'The Poverty of Theory' 8. 'Don't tread on Me': the other side of Thompson's critique 9. Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson Part Four: Making Peace 10. After St Paul's: EP Thompson's late work Conclusion: The Last Muggletonian Marxist: The Paradoxical Triumph of EP Thompson 268 Bibliography Index -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationScott Hamilton is a writer and researcher based in New Zealand and has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Auckland -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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