Speaking To Each Other: About Society
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Good , price clipped
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Condition remarks: Chunk of jacket missing at the back. otherwise fine.
A landmark work of cultural criticism, Speaking to Each Other: About Society presents Richard Hoggart's incisive and deeply humanistic reflections on the texture of British working-class life and the forces shaping modern culture. Gathered across two volumes, these essays argue with quiet authority that literature, education, and mass communication are not peripheral concerns but the very sinews of a democratic society. Hoggart writes with the warmth of an insider and the precision of a scholar, drawing on his own upbringing in the industrial north of England to illustrate how cultural habits are formed, sustained, and threatened. The collection challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between high culture and popular experience, insisting that genuine literacy — in the broadest sense — is a moral and social necessity. Accessible yet intellectually rigorous, it remains an essential text for anyone concerned with the politics of culture, the role of the arts, and the meaning of community in the twentieth century.
Author: Richard Hoggart
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Chunk of jacket missing at the back. otherwise fine.
A landmark work of cultural criticism, Speaking to Each Other: About Society presents Richard Hoggart's incisive and deeply humanistic reflections on the texture of British working-class life and the forces shaping modern culture. Gathered across two volumes, these essays argue with quiet authority that literature, education, and mass communication are not peripheral concerns but the very sinews of a democratic society. Hoggart writes with the warmth of an insider and the precision of a scholar, drawing on his own upbringing in the industrial north of England to illustrate how cultural habits are formed, sustained, and threatened. The collection challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between high culture and popular experience, insisting that genuine literacy — in the broadest sense — is a moral and social necessity. Accessible yet intellectually rigorous, it remains an essential text for anyone concerned with the politics of culture, the role of the arts, and the meaning of community in the twentieth century.