{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-theory-9780719084355","title":"The Crisis of Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart One: from the Thirties to the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e1. The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism, and the thirties\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: New Left, Old Problems \u003cbr\u003e2. Yesterday the struggle: ‘Outside the Whale’ and the fight for the thirties\u003cbr\u003e3. A peculiar classic\u003cbr\u003e4. Getting out of the tent\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Crisis and Creativity\u003cbr\u003e5. The road to St Paul’s\u003cbr\u003e6. The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser\u003cbr\u003e7. ‘Mountainous inconsistency’: EP Thompson, Marx, and ‘The Poverty of Theory’\u003cbr\u003e8. ‘Don’t tread on Me’: the other side of Thompson’s critique\u003cbr\u003e9. Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: Making Peace \u003cbr\u003e10. After St Paul’s: EP Thompson’s late work\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Last Muggletonian Marxist: The Paradoxical Triumph of EP Thompson \t268\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884281573719,"sku":"9780719084355","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-crisis-of-theory-9780719084355","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}