Description
Book SynopsisThis book is an intellectual biography of EP Thompson, as well as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge: as such, it considers not just Thompsonâs ideas and arguments, but also the question of why he adopted those ideas, and made those arguments. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: from the Thirties to the Cold War
1. The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism, and the thirties
Part Two: New Left, Old Problems
2. Yesterday the struggle: ‘Outside the Whale’ and the fight for the thirties
3. A peculiar classic
4. Getting out of the tent
Part Three: Crisis and Creativity
5. The road to St Paul’s
6. The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser
7. ‘Mountainous inconsistency’: EP Thompson, Marx, and ‘The Poverty of Theory’
8. ‘Don’t tread on Me’: the other side of Thompson’s critique
9. Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson
Part Four: Making Peace
10. After St Paul’s: EP Thompson’s late work
Conclusion: The Last Muggletonian Marxist: The Paradoxical Triumph of EP Thompson 268
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Index
