Postwar British Critical Thought

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VOLUME ONE: OLD RIGHT AND NEW LEFT James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution - George Orwell The Three Senses of 'Culture' - T S Eliot Literature and Society - F R Leavis Invitations to a Candy-Floss World - Richard Hoggart The Newer Mass Art Conclusion from Culture and Society - Raymond Williams Notes from the Moral Wilderness I - Alasdair MacIntyre Notes from the Moral Wilderness II - Alasdair MacIntyre At the Point of Decay - E P Thompson Luddites? or There Is Only One Culture - F R Leavis Imperialism - Michael Kidron Highest Stage But One Nationalism - Ernest Gellner Introduction from Sanity, Madness and the Family - R D Laing and A Esterson A Socio-Linguistic Approach to Social Learning - Basil Bernstein Women - Juliet Mitchell The Longest Revolution Conclusion from The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour - John H Goldthorpe and David Lockwood The Rediscovery of the Cash Nexus - J H Westergaard Reform and Repression - Ralph Miliband Conclusion from The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution - Christopher Hill VOLUME TWO: NEW THEORY Components of the National Culture - Perry Anderson The Social Cohesion of Liberal Democracy - Michael Mann Strategies of Social Closure in Class Formation - Frank Parkin Rethinking the Theory of Class (I) - Anthony Giddens Categories for a Materialist Criticism - Terry Eagleton Realism and the Cinema - Colin McCabe Notes on Some Brechtian Theses Discourse and Objects of Discourse - Barry Hindess and Paul Q Hirst Evolution and Communication - Jack Goody Sections XV and XVI from The Poverty of Theory or an Orrery of Errors - E P Thompson 'Introduction' and 'Hegemony' - Raymond Williams The Forward March of Labour Halted? - Eric Hobsbawm Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass Communication - Nicholas Garnham Cultural Studies - Stuart Hall Two Paradigms 'Introduction' and 'Why Is the Labour Party in a Mess?' - Gareth Stedman-Jones History Workshop 1966-80 - Raphael Samuel Settling Accounts with Subcultures - Angela McRobbie A Feminist Critique 'What Is Left?' and 'Raymond Williams' - Roger Scruton Post-Structuralism and the English Tradition - Anthony Easthope VOLUME THREE: NEW POLITICS Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema - Laura Mulvey This Novel Changes Lives - Rosalind Coward Are Women's Novel Feminist Novels? Introduction-I from Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne - Juliet Mitchell Pandora's Box - Cora Kaplan Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism The Invisible Fl[ci]aneuse - Janet Wolff Women and the Literature of Modernity Feminism, Postmodernism and Style - Toril Moi Recent Feminist Criticism in the United States The Concept of Difference - Mich[gr]ele Barrett Painting, Feminism, History - Griselda Pollock Generations of Feminism - Lynne Segal Antifeminism and Sex Reform before the First World War - Sheila Jeffreys Conclusion - Jeffrey Weeks Beyond Boundaries of Sexuality Towards Cultural History - in Theory and Practice - Catherine Belsey Culture and Textuality - Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield Debating Cultural Materialism The Modern Janus - Tom Nairn The Whisper Wakes, the Shudder Plays - Paul Gilroy 'Race', Nation and Ethnic Absolutism Of Mimicry and Man - Homi K Bhabha The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse DissemiNation - Homi K Bhabha Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation Culture, Community, Nation - Stuart Hall Ideology and Utopia in the Formation of an Intelligentsia - Bryan Turner Reflections on the English Cultural Conduit VOLUME FOUR: NEW TIMES Notes on Exterminism, the Last Stage of Civilization - E P Thompson from Towards 2000 - Raymond Williams from 'Modernity and Revolution' - Perry Anderson from 'Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism and Post-Marxism' - Alex Callinicos Post-Marxism without Apologies - Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe The Meaning of New Times - Stuart Hall Is There a Postmodern Sociology? - Zygmunt Bauman Useful Culture - Tony Bennett The Promising Future of Class Analysis - John H Goldthorpe and Gordon Marshall A Response to Recent Critiques Feminism, Postmodernism and the 'Real Me' - Angela McRobbie Living in a Post-Traditional Society - Anthony Giddens Ways of Looking - Richard Hoggart Compass Bearings in a Wide-Open Society? The Politics and Cultures of Discord - Alan Sinfield Metaculture and Society - Francis Mulhern Ukania under Blair - Tom Nairn A Weightless Hegemony - Susan Watkins New Labour's Role in the Neo-Liberal Order