Raymond Williams (eBook)

Cultural Analyst

Jim McGuigan (Autor)

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2019
184 Seiten
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78938-049-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses in particular on the formation and application of Raymond Williams's cultural-materialist methodology to society and politics. Addressing aspects of Williams's work that have startlingly direct relevance to the prospects for socialism and progressive change in the twenty-first century, Jim McGuigan analyses Williams's often complicated work in a clear, accessible fashion, making connections across key concepts and delivering the perfect introduction for people first grappling with Williams's thought.  

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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

lt;p>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

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2019
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Materialism • Cultural Studies • Materialism • Raymond Williams
• ISBN-10: 1-78938-049-9 / 1789380499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78938-049-1 / 9781789380491