Stuart Hall: Selected Political Writings
The Great Moving Right Show and other essays
‘Stuart Hall was one of the great political intellectuals of our time – learned, perspicacious, provocative and wise. He was also a master essayist. This splendid selection, spanning more than fifty years, is a feast.’ Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
In one sense, of course, all of Stuart Hall’s writing was political, but this collection focuses on the essays he wrote throughout his life that directly engaged with political issues. From the beginning, his analyses focused strongly on the central role of culture in politics, and his insights are evident across the whole selection, whether he is writing about Thatcher’s authoritarianism or the double shuffles of Tony Blair.
These essays come from three broad periods: the 1950s and 1960s, when Hall was involved in the New Left; the 1970s and 1980s, when he evolved his critique of Thatcherism; and from the 1990s until the end of his life, when he focused on the emergence of neoliberalism.
The editors have brought together the best and most representative works of a writer with a unique and conjunctural approach to understanding politics, and have collected those works that have a general application to broader political questions. The collection is therefore valuable for readers interested in the politics of the past sixty years, in specific political questions, such as around political commitment, or the politics of empire, and specific political moments, such as the Cuban Crisis, or the actions of New Labour. But Hall’s engaging writing and the connections here between his more obviously political writing and the other areas of his work—including identity politics and race—also make the collection an essential resource for those interested in politics more generally.
This collection also contains an introduction and afterword by the editors.
| Weight | 0.500000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781910448656 |
| ISBN10 | 1910448656 |
| Author | HALL, Stuart |
| Binding | Paperback |
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| Date Published | 15th January 2017 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Publisher | Lawrence & Wishart |
The Great Moving Right Show and other essays
‘Stuart Hall was one of the great political intellectuals of our time – learned, perspicacious, provocative and wise. He was also a master essayist. This splendid selection, spanning more than fifty years, is a feast.’ Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
In one sense, of course, all of Stuart Hall’s writing was political, but this collection focuses on the essays he wrote throughout his life that directly engaged with political issues. From the beginning, his analyses focused strongly on the central role of culture in politics, and his insights are evident across the whole selection, whether he is writing about Thatcher’s authoritarianism or the double shuffles of Tony Blair.
These essays come from three broad periods: the 1950s and 1960s, when Hall was involved in the New Left; the 1970s and 1980s, when he evolved his critique of Thatcherism; and from the 1990s until the end of his life, when he focused on the emergence of neoliberalism.
The editors have brought together the best and most representative works of a writer with a unique and conjunctural approach to understanding politics, and have collected those works that have a general application to broader political questions. The collection is therefore valuable for readers interested in the politics of the past sixty years, in specific political questions, such as around political commitment, or the politics of empire, and specific political moments, such as the Cuban Crisis, or the actions of New Labour. But Hall’s engaging writing and the connections here between his more obviously political writing and the other areas of his work—including identity politics and race—also make the collection an essential resource for those interested in politics more generally.
This collection also contains an introduction and afterword by the editors.
Contents:
1. The New Conservatism and the Old Universities & Left Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1957)
2. A Sense of Classlessness Universities & Left Review, No. 5 (Winter 1958)
3. The Supply of Demand In Out of Apathy, New Left Books/Stevens and Sons (1960)
4. The Cuban Crisis: Trial-run or Steps towards Peace? War & Peace, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January-March 1963)
5. Political Commitment In The Committed Church, Darton, Longman and Todd (1966)
6. The First New Left: Life and Times In Out of Apathy (1990)
7. A World at One with Itself New Society No. 403 (1970)
8. Racism and Reaction In Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain, Commission for Racial Equality (1978)
9. 1970: Selsdon Man: Birth of the Law and Order Society Written with C. Critcher, T. Jefferson, J. Clarke & B. Roberts From Chapter 9 of Policing the Crisis: ‘Mugging’, the State and Law and Order, Macmillan (1978)
10. The Great Moving Right Show Marxism Today, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 1979)
11. The ‘Little Caesars’ of Social Democracy Marxism Today, Vol. 25, No. 4 (April 1981)
12. The Empire Strikes Back New Socialist (July-August 1982)
13. The Crisis of Labourism In The Future of the Left, Polity Press/Basil Blackwell (1984)
14. The State: Socialism’s Old Caretaker Marxism Today, Vol. 28, No. 11 (November 1984)
15. Blue Election, Election Blues Marxism Today, Vol. 38, No. 7 (July 1987)
16. The Meaning of New Times New Times, L&W (1989) And Not A Shot Fired: The End of Thatcherism? Marxism Today, Vol. 42, No. 12 (December 1991)
17 Our Mongrel Selves New Statesman (1992)
18. The Great Moving Nowhere Show Marxism Today, special issue (November-December 1998)
19. New Labour’s Double-Shuffle Soundings, No. 24 (Summer 2003)
20. The Neoliberal Revolution Soundings, No. 48 (Summer 2011)