The Poverty Of Theory: & Other Essays
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A landmark collection of critical essays from one of Britain's most influential socialist historians and thinkers, The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays presents E.P. Thompson's most sustained and passionate intellectual argument against the dominant structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser. The centrepiece essay, a lengthy and polemical critique, argues forcefully that Althusserian theory is a theoretical practice disconnected from historical reality, human agency, and moral experience — what Thompson calls a poverty of theory. Written with combative brilliance and wit, the collection also includes several companion essays that illustrate Thompson's broader commitment to a humanist, historically grounded socialism. As a historian who had already reshaped working-class history with The Making of the English Working Class, Thompson here enters the arena of high theoretical debate, insisting that history and human experience must remain at the centre of any credible socialist thought. The result is an essential text for anyone engaged with Marxist theory, historiography, and the politics of intellectual life in the twentieth century.
Author: E.P. Thompson
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Merlin Press
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark collection of critical essays from one of Britain's most influential socialist historians and thinkers, The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays presents E.P. Thompson's most sustained and passionate intellectual argument against the dominant structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser. The centrepiece essay, a lengthy and polemical critique, argues forcefully that Althusserian theory is a theoretical practice disconnected from historical reality, human agency, and moral experience — what Thompson calls a poverty of theory. Written with combative brilliance and wit, the collection also includes several companion essays that illustrate Thompson's broader commitment to a humanist, historically grounded socialism. As a historian who had already reshaped working-class history with The Making of the English Working Class, Thompson here enters the arena of high theoretical debate, insisting that history and human experience must remain at the centre of any credible socialist thought. The result is an essential text for anyone engaged with Marxist theory, historiography, and the politics of intellectual life in the twentieth century.