The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture

by Richard Hoggart

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"This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ' SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain's most distinguished cultural critics. In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense. As always, he makes us see how responsible we all are for the way we live now. 'Compelling, very important' NEW STATESMAN and SOCIETY"… (more)

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I picked this up again after having got half way through it several years ago. It turned out to be a book of its time. Mr Hoggart a then well known cultural commentator. Distance tells us he was short sighted. The society he commented on twenty years ago has changed signigficantly in ways he did not anticpate or expect. So really the book turned out to be little more than an extended newspaper opinion piece. But not a bad one by any means. (

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"This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ' SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain's most distinguished cultural critics. In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense. As always, he makes us see how responsible we all are for the way we live now. 'Compelling, very important' NEW STATESMAN and SOCIETY"

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