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Tradición, Revuelta y Consciencia de Clase

E. P. Thompson fue uno de los historiadores más originales e influyentes del siglo XX, cuyas enseñanzas cambiaron radicalmente el modo en que no ya los historiadores, sino toda una generación contemplaba el pasado. Esta Obra esencial, la mayor recopilación de textos históricos de Thompson publicada en un solo volumen, contiene los pasos de La formación de la clase obrera en Inglaterra, de Costumbres en común o de William Morris, Albion's Fatal Tree o Whigs and Hunters, que mejor reflejan el compromiso del conocimiento con la imaginación y la convicción, actitud que rigió siempre la vida y la obra de Thompson. Esta soberbia introducción a la obra del gran historiador inglés que es, al mismo tiempo, una síntesis impagable de sus mejores páginas, nos permite comprender todo el alcance de la inteligencia y capacidad de una de las voces más elocuentes, poderosas e independientes de nuestro tiempo.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

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E.P. Thompson

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Edward Palmer Thompson was an English historian, writer, marxist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963). He also published influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993) and was a prolific journalist and essayist. He also published the novel The Sykaos Papers and a collection of poetry.

Thompson was one of the principal intellectuals of the Communist Party in Great Britain. Although he left the party in 1956 over the Soviet invasion of Hungary, he nevertheless remained a "historian in the Marxist tradition," calling for a rebellion against Stalinism as a prerequisite for the restoration of communists' "confidence in our own revolutionary perspectives". Thompson played a key role in the first New Left in Britain in the late 1950s. He was a vociferous left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964–70 and 1974–79, and during the 1980s, he was the leading intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe.

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