{"title":"Raymond Williams","description":"Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988) was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge University.","products":[{"product_id":"keywords-a-vocabulary-of-culture-and-society-paperback","title":"Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1976, Raymond Williams' highly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eKeywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of lively essays on words that are critical to understanding the modern world. In these essays, Williams, a renowned cultural critic, demonstrates how these key words take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of our past and current society. He chose words both essential and intangible--words like \u003cem\u003enature, underprivileged, industry, liberal, violence\u003c\/em\u003e, to name a few--and, by tracing their etymology and evolution, grounds them in a wider political and cultural framework. The result is an illuminating account of the central vocabulary of ideological debate in English in the modern period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition features a new original foreword by Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Literature, University of Pittsburgh, that reflects on the significance of Williams' life and work. \u003cem\u003eKeywords\u003c\/em\u003e remains as relevant today as it was over thirty years ago, offering a provocative study of our language and an insightful look at the society in which we live.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376153297119,"sku":"9780199393213","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PCTMCxVa-89780199393213.webp?v=1789214326"},{"product_id":"politics-of-modernism-against-the-new-conformists-paperback","title":"Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsidered 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\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe death of Raymond Williams in 1988 robbed us of one of the most formidable British intellectuals. 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, his last 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 politics which goes 'beyond the modern' and yet which avoids the trap of postmodernism's 'new conformism'?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377642995935,"sku":"9781844675807","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eRhuvZRmNg9781844675807.webp?v=1789236270"},{"product_id":"culture-and-politics-class-writing-socialism-paperback","title":"Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of culture and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which are published for the first time, Williams emerges as not only one of the great writers of materialist criticism, but also a thoroughly engaged political writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished to coincide with the centenary of his birth and showing the full range of his work, from his early writings on art and society, to later work on ecosocialism and the politics of modernism, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Politics \u003c\/i\u003eis Williams at both his most accessible and his most penetrating. The collection - which includes a new introductory essay on Williams by the book's editor Phil O'Brien - shows an extraordinary range of topics from portraits of Herbert Read and Pierre Bourdieu, the future of work, the meanings of Marxism and modernism, the possibilities for socialist advance, as well as the history of working-class literature and culture in postwar Britain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential book for all those interested in the politics of culture in the twentieth century, and how Raymond Williams allowed us to see why popular culture mattered.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377647091935,"sku":"9781788738637","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0NCIGUtyFs9781788738637.webp?v=1789236286"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/raymond-williams.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}