Title The crisis of theory : EP Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics / Scott Hamilton

Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) Contents From the 1930s to the Cold War -- New Left, old problems -- Crisis and creativity -- Making peace The making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism and the 1930s -- Yesterday the struggle: 'Outside the Whale' and the fight for the 1930s -- A peculiar classic -- Getting out of the tent -- The road to St Paul's -- The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser -- 'Mountainous inconsistency': EP Thompson, Marx and 'The Poverty of Theory' -- 'Don't Tread on Me': the other side of Thompson's critique -- Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson -- After St Paul's: EP Thompson's late work -- Conclusion: The last Muggletonian Marxist: EP Thompson's paradoxical triumph Summary "This book tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of EP Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his little-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. In a narrative that moves from the battlefields of Spian and Italy to the coal towns of Yorkshire to the bloody chaos of Emergency India, Hamilton present Thompson as a man determined to find an alternative, in thought and in action, to the ideologies of Stalinism and right-wing 'Natopolotanism' that together dominated the postwar world ... This book will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in left-wing politics and theory, British society twentieth-century history, modernist poetry and the philosophy of history"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-290) and index Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed February 11, 2016) Subject Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993. SUBJECT Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993 fast Subject Right and left (Political science) -- Great Britain Socialism -- Great Britain POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Politics and government Socialism Right and left (Political science) SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868 Subject Great Britain Form Electronic book ISBN 9781847794147 1847794149 9781781702338 1781702330

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