The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays - E.P. Thompson

Collection of essays by English Marxist historian E.P. Thompson, including his popular polemic against Louis Althusser.

Contents:

Foreword
The Poverty of Theory or An Orrery of Errors (1978)
Outside the Whale (1960)
The Peculiarities of the English (1965)
An Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski (1973)
A Note on the Texts

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