Title

Stuart Hall: An Exemplary Socialist Public Intellectual?

Authors

Herbert Pimlott, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2014

Department

Department of Communication Studies

Abstract

This article offers an assessment of the Stuart Hall’s role as a socialist public intellectual during the 1980s and the circulation of his Thatcherism thesis via public interventions writing for the periodical, Marxism Today.

Contrary to most assessments of the influence of scholars and public intellectuals, which are based upon an implicit assumption that their widespread circulation are a result of the veracity and strength of the ideas themselves, this article focuses on the processes of production and distribution, including the intellectual’s own contribution to the ideas’ popularity by attending conferences and public rallies, writing for periodicals, and so on. This article connects the person, scholar and public intellectual to the organisations, institutions and publications through which his contributions to both cultural studies and left politics were produced and distributed.

Comments

This article originally appeared in Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, Volume 10, Summer 2014,

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18740/S4KW2V

Recommended Citation

Pimlott, Herbert. 2014. "Stuart Hall: An Exemplary Socialist Public Intellectual?" Socialist Studies / Études socialistes 10 (1): 191-99.