Politics of Modernism - Raymond Williams

Politics of Modernism

Against the New Conformists
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2007
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-84467-580-7 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.
Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously and inclusively as "structures of feeling." In this major work, Williams applies himself to the problem of modernism. Rejecting stereotypes and simplifications, he is especially preoccupied with the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary socialist politics and the artistic avant-garde. Judiciously assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the modernist project, Williams shifts the framework of discussion from merely formal analysis of artistic techniques to one which grounds these cultural expressions in particular social formations. Animating the whole book is the question which Williams poses and brings us significantly closer to answering: namely, what does it mean to develop a cultural analysis that goes "beyond the modern" and yet avoids the trap of postmodernism's "new conformism"?

Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy, and was educated at the village school, at Abergavenny Grammar School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1961 and was later appointed University Professor of Drama. His books include Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution (1961) and its sequel Towards 2000 (1983); Communications (1962) and Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974); Drama in Performance (1954), Modern Tragedy (1966) and Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1968); The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (1970), Orwell (1971) and The Country and the City (1973); Politics and Letters (interviews) (1979) and Problems in Materialism and Culture (selected essays) (1980); and four novels - the Welsh trilogy of Border Country (1960), Second Generation (1964) and The Fight for Manod (1979), and The Volunteers (1978).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.1.2007
Reihe/Serie Radical Thinkers
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 198 mm
Gewicht 250 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-84467-580-7 / 1844675807
ISBN-13 978-1-84467-580-7 / 9781844675807
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