Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals): Essays for Eric Hobsbawm - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138671134 ISBN 13: 9781138671133

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present ― historical consciousness ― to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.

About this title

About the Author:

Raphael Samuel (1934 1996) was a tutor in History at Ruskin College, Oxford, and a founding editor of History Workshop Journal. His works include Theatres of Memory and Island Stories.

Gareth Stedman Jones is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of An End to Poverty? and Languages of Class: Studies in Working-Class History 1832-1982.

Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of Political Thought and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is the Cambridge Faculty Director of the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program and a Member of the Conseil Scientifique of the CNRS. Professor Stedman Jones has published numerous books and articles, including Outcast London (1971), Languages of Class (1983) and An End to Poverty? (2005), and wrote the introduction to The Communist Manifesto (2003). He is currently working on an intellectual biography of Marx.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138671134
• ISBN 13: 9781138671133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Samuel Raphael, Stedman Jones Gareth