Towards 2000
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
What kind of world are we truly building, and who gets to decide? In Towards 2000, Raymond Williams, one of the twentieth century's most penetrating cultural and political thinkers, presents a bold and unflinching diagnosis of late capitalist society, arguing that the dominant forces of technology, media, and political economy are not neutral instruments of progress but active agents shaping — and distorting — the possibilities of human life. Williams surveys the landscape of the modern Western world with characteristic rigor, addressing issues of democracy, nuclear threat, ecology, communications, and class with both scholarly precision and passionate urgency. Far from a prophecy of doom, it is a rallying call for a genuinely democratic socialism, grounded in the lived experience of ordinary people. Williams writes in the tradition of committed public intellectuals — combining the analytical depth of his earlier landmark works such as Culture and Society and The Long Revolution with a more direct, politically charged voice sharpened by the crises of the 1980s. His style is measured yet forceful, never retreating into abstraction when concrete social reality demands to be named. Towards 2000 stands as a vital document of dissent and possibility — and leaves one asking whether the futures Williams imagined, and warned against, have already arrived.
Author: Raymond Williams
Format: Hardback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
What kind of world are we truly building, and who gets to decide? In Towards 2000, Raymond Williams, one of the twentieth century's most penetrating cultural and political thinkers, presents a bold and unflinching diagnosis of late capitalist society, arguing that the dominant forces of technology, media, and political economy are not neutral instruments of progress but active agents shaping — and distorting — the possibilities of human life. Williams surveys the landscape of the modern Western world with characteristic rigor, addressing issues of democracy, nuclear threat, ecology, communications, and class with both scholarly precision and passionate urgency. Far from a prophecy of doom, it is a rallying call for a genuinely democratic socialism, grounded in the lived experience of ordinary people. Williams writes in the tradition of committed public intellectuals — combining the analytical depth of his earlier landmark works such as Culture and Society and The Long Revolution with a more direct, politically charged voice sharpened by the crises of the 1980s. His style is measured yet forceful, never retreating into abstraction when concrete social reality demands to be named. Towards 2000 stands as a vital document of dissent and possibility — and leaves one asking whether the futures Williams imagined, and warned against, have already arrived.