Hall / McLennan Selected Writings on Marxism

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0215-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Stuart Hall: Selected Writings

This collection of Stuart Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the formative questions central to his interpretations of and investments in Marxist theory and practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Stuart

McLennan, Gregor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on the Text vii
Acknowledgments ix
Editor's Introduction: Mediating Marxism 1
Part I. Theoretical Readings
1. Marx's Notes on Method: A "Reading" of the "1857 Introduction" [1974] 19
2. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977] 62
3. The "Political" and the "Economic" in Marx's Theory of Classes [1977] 91
4. The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees [1983] 134
Editor's Discussion of the Part I Writings 158
Part II. Thematic Overviews
5. Subcultures, Cultures and Class: A Theoretical Overview (with John Clarke, Tony Jefferson, and Brian Roberts) [1975] 179
6. Black Crime, Black Proletariat (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) [1978] 199
7. Variants of Liberalism [1986] 227
Editor's Discussion of the Part II Writings 247
Part III. Points of Departure
8. Nicos Poulantzas: State, Power, Socialism [1980] 261
9. In Defence of Theory [1981] 273
10. Authoritarian Populism: A Reply to Jessop et al. [1985] 282
11. When Was "the Post-colonial"? Thinking at the Limit [1996] 293
12. The Centrality of Culture: Notes on the Cultural Revolutions of Our Time [1997] 316
Editor's Discussion of the Part III Writings 335
Index 351
Place of First Publication 363

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. Hall taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and was the author of Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

Gregor McLennan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol and author of several books on Marxism, pluralism, and social theory.