Abstract
Even though part of a world-wide phenomenon in the industrialised, Western societies, the British counter-culture of the 1960s required an intellectual heritage in which it could ‘take root’. Arguably, and to switch the metaphor, the nineteenth-century Romantics provided some intellectual — spiritual, even — links with the essentially romantic and messianic blend of anarchism and diverse interpretations of socialism so important to the counter-culture.1
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Nelson, E. (1989). The Precursors of the Counter-Culture. In: The British Counter-Culture, 1966–73. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20217-1_2
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