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<p>'His wealth of scholarship and sharp insights make this a very fine book indeed. It is probably the fullest statement of Raymond Williams's enduring influence upon cultural studies' - <i>Jim Mc Guigan, University of Loughborough</i></p> <p>'An accessible, engaging book' - <i>TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies</i></p> <p>This important book traces the continuing influence on contemporary cultural studies of the kinds of cultural materialism developed by Raymond Williams and his successors. Williams now often appears in cultural studies as a vaguely remembered 'founding father', rather than a theorist whose work is still actively relevant to our present condition. Milner's book restores Williams to a central position in relation to the formation and development of cultural studies. It stresses the differences between Williams and that other founding father, Richard Hoggart, arguing that the label 'culturalism' cannot properly be applied to both. It argues that Williams stands in an essentially analogous relation to the British 'culturalist' tradition as do Foucault and Bourdieu to French structuralism and Habermas to German critical theory and that his cultural materialis

Author

Andrew Milner; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781446235317

Subjects

Anthropology, Historical Fiction, Sociology