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Republished by Stanford University Press.
=== Optimism of the intellect ===
'''Chapter 1: The difference a generation makes'''
"One of the several strange and unanticipated results of this [cultural studies] movement has been the transformation of Gramsci's remark on 'pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will' into a virtual law of human nature...a powerful inhibitor to action was [/is] the inability to come up with an alternative to the Thatcherite doctrine that 'there is no alternative'... The inability to find an 'optimism of the intellect' with which to work through alternatives has now become one of the most serious barriers to progressive politics." (p.17).
=== The insurgent architect at work ===
'''Ch.12: "The insurgent architect at work"'''
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