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Introduction. Wondering about ‘the Causes of Causes’: The Publisher’s Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings

Part Two: The Series, the Academy, and the World

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The series is a major factor in aiding the book historian to pose and to answer many questions, including ‘why does book history matter?’ Here we confront wider dilemmas about ideas and assumptions about culture, art, education, politics, economics, democracy, morality, the intellect and individual development, and the relations with ourselves, with others, and with the State. And so we find that in considering the culture of the publisher’s series we have to examine social roles and consciousness, perceptions of self and of others, and the complex interactions of private and public thought and practice on how we are to live and how others have done so. These issues concern — in the words of Raymond Williams — ‘changes in consciousness which are themselves forms of consciousness of change’ (Williams 1986: 142).

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Spiers, J. (2011). Introduction. Wondering about ‘the Causes of Causes’: The Publisher’s Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings. In: Spiers, J. (eds) The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume Two. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299399_1

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