Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies

by Dennis Dworkin

Book Overview

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, and up to the advent of Thatcherism, Dworkin shows this history to be one of a coherent intellectual tradition, a tradition that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319098
• ISBN13: 9780822319092
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages