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Raymond Williams

1921 - 1988

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Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Williams is the 871st most popular philosopher (down from 781st in 2019), the 2,377th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,780th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Raymond Williams ranks 871 out of 1,267. Before him are Julius Pollux, Myson of Chenae, James Mark Baldwin, Frederick Copleston, August Böckh, and Ted Nelson. After him are William of Conches, Ian Hacking, Arethas of Caesarea, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, and Johann Heinrich Alsted.

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Among people born in 1921, Raymond Williams ranks 181. Before him are Luis García Berlanga, Jackie Stallone, Ernest Gold, Silvio Gazzaniga, Jair da Rosa Pinto, and Helena Rakoczy. After him are Angelo Dundee, Pierre Bec, Amedeo Amadei, Oswaldo López Arellano, Piero Piccioni, and Francisco Morales Bermúdez. Among people deceased in 1988, Raymond Williams ranks 97. Before him are Vasil Mzhavanadze, Andy Gibb, Christopher Connelly, Alec Issigonis, Giorgio Almirante, and Wilhelm Batz. After him are Sewall Wright, Henry Armstrong, Henry Koster, Hal Ashby, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, and Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Williams ranks 2,377 out of 8,785. Before him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Henry Irving (1838), Frederick Copleston (1907), Richard Lydekker (1849), Alan Stacey (1933), and Prince William of Gloucester (1941). After him are Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Emma Darwin (1808), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Angela Carter (1940), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), and Carlo Acutis (1991).

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