The is an unparalleled, comprehensive guide to postwar British thought on culture and society. It provides readers with a unique resource which distils the key debates and crucial contributions and points to how these initiatives have been taken up elsewhere.

The volumes are organized into four main sections: (1) Old Right and New Left; (2) New Theories; (3) New Politics; and (4)

New Times.

The first deals with the 'culturalist' critiques of postwar Britain developed by the Old Right and New Left. It also explores some of the sociological commentary on postwar British affluence and the power hierarchy. The second section traces the impact of new forms of 'continental' theorizing, especially structuralism and post-structuralism, during the 1960s and 70s. The third traces the growing concern with 'new' issues of gender, sexuality, postcolonialism, race and ethnicity. The final section deals with postmodernism and globalization, especially as reflected through the distinctively British thematics of 'exterminism', 'New Times' and the 'Third Way'.

Andrew Milner is Professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia

VOLUME ONE: OLD RIGHT AND NEW LEFT

James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution - George Orwell

The Three Senses of `Culture' - T S Eliot

Literature and Society - F R Leavis

Invitations to a Candy-Floss World - Richard Hoggart

The Newer Mass Art

Conclusion from Culture and Society - Raymond Williams

Notes from the Moral Wilderness I - Alasdair MacIntyre

Notes from the Moral Wilderness II - Alasdair MacIntyre

At the Point of Decay - E P Thompson

Luddites? or There Is Only One Culture - F R Leavis

Imperialism - Michael Kidron

Highest Stage But One

Nationalism - Ernest Gellner

Introduction from Sanity, Madness and the Family - R D Laing and A Esterson

A Socio-Linguistic Approach to Social Learning - Basil Bernstein

Women - Juliet Mitchell

The Longest Revolution

Conclusion from The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour - John H Goldthorpe and David Lockwood

The Rediscovery of the Cash Nexus - J H Westergaard

Reform and Repression - Ralph Miliband

Conclusion from The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution - Christopher Hill

VOLUME TWO: NEW THEORY

Components of the National Culture - Perry Anderson

The Social Cohesion of Liberal Democracy - Michael Mann

Strategies of Social Closure in Class Formation - Frank Parkin

Rethinking the Theory of Class (I) - Anthony Giddens

Categories for a Materialist Criticism - Terry Eagleton

Realism and the Cinema - Colin McCabe

Notes on Some Brechtian Theses

Discourse and Objects of Discourse - Barry Hindess and Paul Q Hirst

Evolution and Communication - Jack Goody

Sections XV and XVI from The Poverty of Theory or an Orrery of Errors - E P Thompson

`Introduction' and `Hegemony' - Raymond Williams

The Forward March of Labour Halted? - Eric Hobsbawm

Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass Communication - Nicholas Garnham

Cultural Studies - Stuart Hall

Two Paradigms

`Introduction' and `Why Is the Labour Party in a Mess?' - Gareth Stedman-Jones

History Workshop 1966-80 - Raphael Samuel

Settling Accounts with Subcultures - Angela McRobbie

A Feminist Critique

`What Is Left?' and `Raymond Williams' - Roger Scruton

Post-Structuralism and the English Tradition - Anthony Easthope

VOLUME THREE: NEW POLITICS

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema - Laura Mulvey

This Novel Changes Lives - Rosalind Coward

Are Women's Novel Feminist Novels?

Introduction-I from Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne - Juliet Mitchell

Pandora's Box - Cora Kaplan

Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism

The Invisible Fl[ci]aneuse - Janet Wolff

Women and the Literature of Modernity

Feminism, Postmodernism and Style - Toril Moi

Recent Feminist Criticism in the United States

The Concept of Difference - Mich[gr]ele Barrett

Painting, Feminism, History - Griselda Pollock

Generations of Feminism - Lynne Segal

Antifeminism and Sex Reform before the First World War - Sheila Jeffreys

Conclusion - Jeffrey Weeks

Beyond Boundaries of Sexuality

Towards Cultural History - in Theory and Practice - Catherine Belsey

Culture and Textuality - Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield

Debating Cultural Materialism

The Modern Janus - Tom Nairn

The Whisper Wakes, the Shudder Plays - Paul Gilroy

`Race', Nation and Ethnic Absolutism

Of Mimicry and Man - Homi K Bhabha

The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse

DissemiNation - Homi K Bhabha

Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation

Culture, Community, Nation - Stuart Hall

Ideology and Utopia in the Formation of an Intelligentsia - Bryan Turner

Reflections on the English Cultural Conduit

VOLUME FOUR: NEW TIMES

Notes on Exterminism, the Last Stage of Civilization - E P Thompson

from Towards 2000 - Raymond Williams

from `Modernity and Revolution' - Perry Anderson

from 'Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism and Post-Marxism' - Alex Callinicos

Post-Marxism without Apologies - Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe

The Meaning of New Times - Stuart Hall

Is There a Postmodern Sociology? - Zygmunt Bauman

Useful Culture - Tony Bennett

The Promising Future of Class Analysis - John H Goldthorpe and Gordon Marshall

A Response to Recent Critiques

Feminism, Postmodernism and the `Real Me' - Angela McRobbie

Living in a Post-Traditional Society - Anthony Giddens

Ways of Looking - Richard Hoggart

Compass Bearings in a Wide-Open Society?

The Politics and Cultures of Discord - Alan Sinfield

Metaculture and Society - Francis Mulhern

Ukania under Blair - Tom Nairn

A Weightless Hegemony - Susan Watkins

New Labour's Role in the Neo-Liberal Order