Raymond Williams

Cultural Analyst

Jim McGuigan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2019
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-047-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Raymond Williams was a complex figure with various different facets to his activity. Raymond Williams: Cultural Analyst concentrates on the formation and application of his cultural-materialist methodology and its relation to his politics. Surveying Williams’s extensive writings across the fields of cultural studies, sociology and Marxist theory, the overall objective is to rescue Williams from his routine treatment as a literary scholar, and restore him to his rightful place as a leading scholar of the social sciences, not least for his theoretically sophisticated contribution to the field in the form of cultural materialism. Ultimately, this book argues that Williams should be regarded as a cultural analyst in the sociological rather than narrowly literary sense.



The book is replete with examples of Williams’s ideas and concepts that are of direct and illuminating relevance to twenty-first century problems. Throughout, Jim McGuigan displays a remarkable capacity to explain Williams’s sometimes complex ideas in an inviting and intuitively appealing way, making interesting connections across key concepts. For those familiar with Williams’s work, this new book will come as a breath of fresh air, and for readers coming across Williams for the first time, this offers an inspiring and vivid introduction to his work.

Autor

Jim McGuigan B.Sc., M.Phil., PGCE, Ph.D., FRSA is professor emeritus of cultural analysis at Loughborough University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Cultural Populism (1992), Culture and the Public Sphere (1996), Cultural Methodologies (1997), Modernity and Postmodern Culture (1999, 2006), Rethinking Cultural Policy (2004), Cool Capitalism (2009), Cultural Analysis (2010) and Neoliberal Culture (2016).

Inhalt

Introduction: Raymond Williams in time and place 



Chapter 1: Culture and society 



Against cultural conservatism 



Debating society 



Cultural analysis 



Keywords 



Chapter 2: Communication(s) and culture 



Communications as cultural science 



Advertising magic 



Alternative communication systems 



Towards a common culture 



Chapter 3: The materialist conception of culture 



The question of Marxism 



Modelling hegemony 



Materiality of the sign 



Cultural production and circulation 



Chapter 4: Drama in a screen age 



Dramatic form 



Politics of television drama 



Knowable community 



Chapter 5: Techno times 



Watching TV 



Media determinism and its determination 



Mobile privatization 



Chapter 6: The long revolution 



New Left 



Three revolutions 



May Day Manifesto 



Chapter 7: A short counter-revolution 



Fate of ‘the long revolution’ 



Plan X 



Socialism and the working class 



Resources of hope 



Chapter 8: Public intellectual 



‘Our best man’ 



‘Welsh European’ 



Settling accounts with cultural studies 



Green socialism versus ‘New Times’ 



Afterword: Contemporary cultural studies 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Frontispiece
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-78938-047-2 / 1789380472
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78938-047-7 / 9781789380477
• Zustand: Neuware