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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Ball is Senior Lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University and is Assistant Editor of The Political Quarterly. Klappentext A collection of Bernard Crick's writings comprising everything he ever wrote for The Political Quarterly from the late 1950s to 2008 - newly re-edited and with an Introduction, the collection reveals the intellectual and political development, as well as the wit and style, of one of the most intriguing public intellectuals of the postwar period.* Includes articles, reviews, all assignable commentaries, and the first chapter of his abandoned history of the Political Quarterly journal, from the late 1950s to 2008* The earliest pieces coincide with his beginnings as a new lecturer at the LSE, follows his ideas, insights and preoccupations through his years as author of the classic In Defence of Politics and his biography of Orwell, to his later work with the Home Office on citizenship and articles written in the last year of his life.* Explores how a person universally described in his 2008 obituaries as ambitious, self-centred and personally difficult could assume such an important role in the collective enterprise of The Political Quarterly* A definitive collection, unrivalled in its depth and span of years, covering such perennial (and PQ) issues as public policy, governance, parliamentary reform, education, citizenship, the fortunes of the Labour party, and the evolution of leftward politics in the UK Zusammenfassung * A collection of Bernard Crick s writings comprising everything he ever wrote for The Political Quarterly from the late 1950s to 2008 * Reveals the intellectual and political development, as well as the wit and style, of one of the most intriguing public intellectuals of the postwar period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Stephen Ball Introduction: Stephen Ball Part I: Articles and book chapters, 1960 to 2009 1 Socialist Literature in the 1950s (1960) 2 The Campus and the Caucus (1962) 3 What Should the Lords Be Doing? (1963) 4 Prospects for Parliamentary Reform (1965) 5 The Future of the Labour Government (1967) 6 A Time to Reason (book chapter, 1970) 7 The 1970s in Retrospect (1970) 8 Social Trends and Statistical Services (Reports and Surveys, 1971) 9 The Strange Death of the American Theory of Consensus (1972) 10 Paying for the Parties (1975) 11 The Character of a Moderate (1976) 12 Some Socialist Books (Reports and Surveys, 1977) 13 A Meditation on Socialism and Nine Theories (1980) 14 The Future of the Labour Party (1983) 15 The Observer (1985) 16 The Fundamental Condition of Labour (1987) 17 The State of Our Civil Liberties (1989) 18 The English and the British (book chapter, 1991) 19 Ambushes and Advances: the Scottish Act 1998 (1995) 20 Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times (1997) 21 Still Missing: A Public Philosophy? (1997) 22 Introduction to Citizens: Towards a Citizenship Culture (book chapter, 2001) 23 Justifications of Violence (2006) 24 Do We Really Need Britannia? (2007; as book chapter, 2009) 25 The Four Nations: Interrelations (2008) Part II: Reviews, 1957 to 2008 1950s Fabian International Essays , edited by T. E. M. McKitterick and Kenneth Younger (1957) The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 , by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (1958) The House of Lords and Contemporary Politics: 1911-1957 , by P. A. Bromhead; La Chambre des Lords au XXe Siècle: 1911-1949 , by Michel Bouissou (1958) Oppression and Liberty , by Simone Weil; The Human Condition , by Hannah Arendt (1959) 1960s Words and Things: A Cri...
