2016
DOI: 10.1177/1749975516655462
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Abstract: There is currently a need for cultural sociology to readdress the work of humanistic and cultural Marxism. While recently much of this work has been dismissed, the appearance of more radical social movements and the ongoing crisis of neoliberalism suggest that it still has much to tell us. In this respect, this article seeks to readdress the writing of the historian E. P. Thompson, arguing that his work on the class-based and other social movements, poetics, critique of positivism and economic reason, utopia a… Show more

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“…It is, therefore, surprising as well as refreshing that we are today, in the context of the thorough downplaying of class and salience of anti-humanism (or post humanism), hearing more and more explicit appeals for sociology in general and cultural sociology in particular to explore anew how a critical or revised humanism and, more to the point, humanist Marxism might contribute to contemporary debates (e.g. Chernilo 2016;Durkin 2014;Maher 2016;Porpora 2015;Sayer 2011;Stevenson 2016; also, from a non-Marxian viewpoint, Brereton 2011; Smith 2010). Such humanism or humanist Marxism, certainly not adopted uncritically, is said to be helpful especially in relation to the most urgent is-sues posed by today's truly global (and crisis-ridden) capitalism, the place and workings of culture it partly shapes, and the ever-present, if weak, resistance it inevitably provokes.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is, therefore, surprising as well as refreshing that we are today, in the context of the thorough downplaying of class and salience of anti-humanism (or post humanism), hearing more and more explicit appeals for sociology in general and cultural sociology in particular to explore anew how a critical or revised humanism and, more to the point, humanist Marxism might contribute to contemporary debates (e.g. Chernilo 2016;Durkin 2014;Maher 2016;Porpora 2015;Sayer 2011;Stevenson 2016; also, from a non-Marxian viewpoint, Brereton 2011; Smith 2010). Such humanism or humanist Marxism, certainly not adopted uncritically, is said to be helpful especially in relation to the most urgent is-sues posed by today's truly global (and crisis-ridden) capitalism, the place and workings of culture it partly shapes, and the ever-present, if weak, resistance it inevitably provokes.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Should this 'work', then, be re-articulated to a renewed political economy of academic production? Should we find leverage for this critique in the 'poetics of an academic commons' (after Stevenson, 2017)?…”
Section: Perspectival Reflectionsmentioning
confidence: 99%