
Resources of Hope
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This book brings together important early writings including "Culture is Ordinary," "The British Left," "Welsh Culture" and "Why Do I Demonstrate?" with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on such central themes as the nature of a democratic culture, the value of community, Green socialism, the nuclear threat, and the relation between the state and the arts. Here too, collected for the first time, are the important later political essays which undertake a thorough revaluation of the principles fundamental to the idea of socialist democracy, and confirm Williams as a shrewd and imaginative political theorist. In a sober yet constructive assessment of the possibilities for socialist advance, Williams-in the face of much recent intellectual fashion-powerfully reasserts his lifelong commitment to "making hope practical, rather than despair convincing."
This valuable collection confirms Raymond Williams as a thinker of rare versatility and one of the outstanding intellectuals of our century.
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His books include Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution (1961) and its sequel Towards 2000 (1983); Communications (1962) and Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974); Drama in Performance (1954), Modern Tragedy (1966) and Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1968); The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (1970), Orwell (1971) and The Country and the City (1973); Politics and Letters (interviews) (1979) and Problems in Materialism and Culture (selected essays) (1980); and four novels - the Welsh trilogy of Border Country (1960), Second Generation (1964) and The Fight for Manod (1979), and The Volunteers (1978).
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Defining a Democratic Culture
- Culture is Ordinary
- Communications and Community
- The Idea of a Common Culture
- 2. State, Administration and the Arts
- The Arts Council
- 3. Solidarity and Commitment
- Why Do I Demonstrate?
- You're a Marxist, Aren't You?
- The Writer: Commitment and Alignment
- Art: Freedom as Duty
- 4. Resources of Class and Community
- Welsh Culture
- The Social Significance of 1926
- The Importance of Community
- Mining the Meaning: Key Words in the Miners' Strike
- 5. Beyond Labourism
- The British Left
- Ideas and the Labour Movement
- An Alternative Politics
- Problems of the Coming Period
- Socialists and Coalitionists
- 6. The Challenge of the New Social Movements
- The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament
- Socialism and Ecology
- Between Country and City
- Decentralism and the Politics of Place
- 7. Redefining Socialist Democracy
- The Forward March of Labour Halted?
- Democracy and Parliament
- Walking Backwards into the Future
- Hesitations before Socialism
- Towards Many Socialisms
- The Practice of Possibility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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