A Note on the Text vii
Acknowledgments ix
Editor's Introduction: Mediating Marxism 1
Part I. Theoretical Readings
1. Marx's Notes on Method: A "Reading" of the "1857 Introduction"
[1974] 19
2. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977]
62
3. The "Political" and the "Economic" in Marx's Theory of Classes
[1977] 91
4. The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees [1983]
134
Editor's Discussion of the Part I Writings 158
Part II. Thematic Overviews
5. Subcultures, Cultures and Class: A Theoretical Overview (with
John Clarke, Tony Jefferson, and Brian Roberts) [1975]
179
6. Black Crime, Black Proletariat (with Chas Critcher, Tony
Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) [1978] 199
7. Variants of Liberalism [1986] 227
Editor's Discussion of the Part II Writings 247
Part III. Points of Departure
8. Nicos Poulantzas: State, Power, Socialism [1980] 261
9. In Defence of Theory [1981] 273
10. Authoritarian Populism: A Reply to Jessop et al. [1985]
282
11. When Was "the Post-colonial"? Thinking at the Limit
[1996] 293
12. The Centrality of Culture: Notes on the Cultural Revolutions of
Our Time [1997] 316
Editor's Discussion of the Part III Writings 335
Index 351
Place of First Publication 363
Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and
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Hall taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open
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author of Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, Familiar
Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, and other books also
published by Duke University Press.
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