{"product_id":"culture-and-politics-class-writing-socialism-9781788738637","title":"Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBrand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of culture and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which are published for the first time, Williams emerges as not only one of the great writers of materialist criticism, but also a thoroughly engaged political writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished to coincide with the centenary of his birth and showing the full range of his work, from his early writings on art and society, to later work on ecosocialism and the politics of modernism, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Politics \u003c\/i\u003eis Williams at both his most accessible and his most penetrating. The collection - which includes a new introductory essay on Williams by the book's editor Phil O'Brien - shows an extraordinary range of topics from portraits of Herbert Read and Pierre Bourdieu, the future of work, the meanings of Marxism and modernism, the possibilities for socialist advance, as well as the history of working-class literature and culture in postwar Britain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential book for all those interested in the politics of culture in the twentieth century, and how Raymond Williams allowed us to see why popular culture mattered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaymond Williams\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy, and was educated at the village school, at Abergavenny Grammar School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1961 and was later appointed University Professor of Drama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis books include Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution (1961) and its sequel Towards 2000 (1983); Communications (1962) and Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974); Drama in Performance (1954), Modern Tragedy (1966) and Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1968); The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (1970), Orwell (1971) and The Country and the City (1973); Politics and Letters (interviews) (1979) and Problems in Materialism and Culture (selected essays) (1980); and four novels - the Welsh trilogy of Border Country (1960), Second Generation (1964) and The Fight for Manod (1979), and The Volunteers (1978).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52173891305746,"sku":"9781788738637","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_011cb76c-c258-4e6f-b3a1-d968f20b9e81.jpg?v=1775558129","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/culture-and-politics-class-writing-socialism-9781788738637","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}