Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williamswas a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone and there are many translations available. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 August 1921
Raymond Williams quotes about
Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.