Raymond Williams 1st Edition by Fred Inglis (PDF)

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In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. After his death, he has remained a symbolic figure and his classic works, Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, The Country and the City continue to inspire new generations all over the world. In this first major biography, Fred Inglis has spoken to those who knew this complex and charismatic man at every stage of his life, from his boyhood in the Welsh border country to his brief years of retirement. Through their voices and his own passionate stories and at times combative engagement with his subject, he tells of a story of a life not just for its time but for our own. After Thatcher and Reagan and the Cold War, Williams still has much to teach us about the nature of a good and just society and about the constant struggle to attain it.

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⭐I am a staunch reader of the British “New Left Review” for more than forty years and very eager to learn more about one of the paper’s most distinguished authors, Raymond Williams.The Kindle edition of Fred Inglis‘ 1995 biography of Raymond Williams comes with a mistake on the title page – the wrong author!Innis’ biography fortunately does not belong to the genre of veneration of saints. But unfortunately the author, who was a Labour MP and Professor of Cultural Studies at Warwick, does not always distinguish between Williams’ opinions and his own. Raymond Williams’ relationship with the Communist Party and Stalinism never gets really clear. Innis mentions many authors who wrote for the “New Left Review”. Writers like Perry Anderson and Stuart Hall parade through Innis’ book, but Williams’ contribution to Marxist theory does not get clear. I missed a comprehensive presentation of Williams’ position on structuralism and Althusser. Actually Williams’ appears as the Welsh working class alter ego of the idealist literary critic F.R.Leavis. I am not sure whether this is Inglis or Williams. I think I have to turn to the original text and read “Culture and Society” and “The Long Revolution”. Innis’ book was not very helpful.

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