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In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which are published for the first time, Williams emerges as not only one of the great writers of materialist criticism, but also a thoroughly engaged political writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished to coincide with the centenary of his birth and showing the full range of his work, from his early writings on art and society, to later work on ecosocialism and the politics of modernism, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Politics \u003c\/i\u003eis Williams at both his most accessible and his most penetrating. 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