[ecrea] Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History - Stuart Hall

*Cultural Studies 1983*

*A Theoretical History***

/ Stuart Hall Edited by Jennifer Daryl Slack & Lawrence Grossberg/

     "A very timely gift. These detailed, rigorous lectures are Stuart 
Hall’s most sustained reckoning with the strands of Marxist theory that 
remain crucial for Cultural Studies. Today, at a time of decentered 
neoliberal hegemony, his non-reductive analysis of cultural struggle is 
more relevant than ever."—James Clifford, author of /Returns: Becoming 
Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century/

     "These wonderful lectures give us the history of the rise of 
Cultural Studies as seen by its greatest figure. They fiercely remind us 
of Stuart Hall at his best: crossing disciplinary boundaries, 
acknowledging inspirations, making bold claims with remarkable 
precision. Perhaps nowhere else do we see so clearly how Hall’s thought 
emerged from critical engagements with debates inside of Marxism and 
expressed a commitment to extend and deepen materialist analysis to 
cultural questions."—David Roediger, author of /Seizing Freedom: Slave 
Emancipation and Liberty for All/

     The publication of /Cultural Studies 1983/ is a touchstone event 
in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's 
unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall 
delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North 
American audiences to a thinker and discipline that would shift the 
course of critical scholarship. Unavailable until now, these lectures 
present Hall's original engagements with the theoretical positions that 
contributed to the formation of Cultural Studies. Throughout this 
personally guided tour of Cultural Studies' intellectual genealogy, Hall 
discusses the work of Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, and E. P. 
Thompson; the influence of structuralism; the limitations and 
possibilities of Marxist theory; and the importance of Althusser and 
Gramsci. Throughout these theoretical reflections, Hall insists that 
Cultural Studies aims to provide the means for political change.

*Stuart Hall* (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and influential 
scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. He was a prolific 
writer and speaker and a public voice for critical intelligence and 
social justice who appeared widely on British television and radio. He 
taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the 
founding editor of /New Left Review/, and served as the director of 
Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during its most 
creative and influential decade.

*Jennifer Daryl Slack*is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies 
at Michigan Technological University.

*Lawrence Grossberg* is Morris David Distinguished Professor of 
Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill.

Duke University Press

Stuart Hall: Selected Writings

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