Promises to Keep

Thoughts in Old Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8273-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 172 g

After years of experience, scholarship and accumulated wisdom, here is Richard Hoggart's intellectual autobiography.

- Hoggart is the Grand Old Man of English letters and cultural studies with a popular following
- Hoggart considers the public ideas and events which have interested him, and their intertwinings with his personal life.

The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart's new book is its warmth. In the style of Montaigne, Hoggart looks back over his years and pinpoints those human qualities which have come to mean most to him and which he has appreciated in others.

Part of this man's attraction derives from the fact that he is also extremely self-effacing. Literacy and the use of language remain an abiding concern of Professor Hoggart but he also analyses in these pages the nature of human courage, the uses of memory, the true purposes of education, love and charity, and the approach of the Grim Reaper. Throughout, Hoggart considers the public ideas and events which have interested him, and their intertwinings with his personal life. Examples would be- the family, politics, the intellectual life, beliefs and morals, words and writing. All of these are looked at through what the author describes as his 'time telescope'. Thus this book is not a theoretical or abstract record. Its argument is illustrated from life.

We live in the age of the cult of youth and personality. Our lives are increasingly driven and influenced by The Media. But in these pages is contained the wisdom of one of the most astute and perceptive of our contemporary critics - a literary, social and cultural judge who is also very greatly loved by his admirers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoggart, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Realising that Old Age Approaches
2. Great and Terrible Happenings
3. Family Matters
4. Uncertainties and After
5. Introduction to Intellectual Life
6. Self Love, Belief, Morals
7. Words and Writing
8. Memory
9. Among Thoughts of Death

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Hoggart is a distinguished cultural critic and author of The Uses of Literacy, his most celebrated book. Formerly Professor of English at Birmingham he has sat on many government advisory committees and was Chairman of the National Book League.