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In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, and up to the advent of Thatcherism, Dworkin shows this history to be one of a coherent intellectual tradition, a tradition that represents an implicit and explicit theoretical effort to resolve the crisis of the postwar British Left.Limited to neither a single discipline nor a particular intellectual figure, this book comprehensively views British cultural Marxism in terms of the dialogue between historians and the originators of cultural studies and in its relationship to the new left and feminist movements. From the contributions of Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, Sheila Rowbotham, Catherine Hall, and E. P. Thompson to those of Perry Anderson, Barbara Taylor, Raymond Williams, Dick Hebdige, and Stuart Hall, Dworkin examines the debates over issues of culture and society, structure and agency, experience and ideology, and theory and practice. The rise, demise, and reorganization of journals such as The Reasoner, The New Reasoner, Universities and Left Review, New Left Review, Past and Present, are also part of the history told in this volume. In every instance, the focus of Dworkin’s attention is the intellectual work seen in its political context. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain captures the excitement and commitment that more than one generation of historians, literary critics, art historians, philosophers, and cultural theorists have felt about an unorthodox and critical tradition of Marxist theory.

Culture --- Historiography --- Marxist anthropology --- Right and left (Political science) --- Socialism --- Study and teaching --- History --- Right and left (Political science). --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- 20th century --- 1945 --- -Historiography --- Great Britain - History - 1945- - Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- Communism and anthropology --- Marxian anthropology --- Anthropology --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Culture - Study and teaching - Great Britain - History - 20th century --- Historiography - Great Britain - History - 20th century --- Marxist anthropology - Great Britain --- Socialism - Great Britain --- Great Britain - History - 20th century - Historiography --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1945 --- -Culture

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Culture --- Literature and society --- Politics and culture --- Social problems in literature --- Philosophy --- History --- Williams, Raymond. --- Williams, Raymond --- Political and social views.