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  • Considerations on Western Marxism

    by Perry Anderson ...
    This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly on the work of Lukács, Korsch and Gramsci; Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin; Sartre and Althusser; and Della Volpe and Colletti, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Disputing Disaster

    A Sextet on the Great War

    by Perry Anderson ...
    A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The H-Word

    The Peripeteia of Hegemony

    by Perry Anderson ...
    A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemonyFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece and its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848–1849 in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ever Closer Union?

    Europe in the West

    by Perry Anderson ...
    A comprehensive, critical assessment of the EU after BrexitThe European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty, what sort of structure has crystallised, and does the promise of ever closer union ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Indian Ideology

    by Perry Anderson ...
    The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most populous democracy. Even critics of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the “Idea of India” correspond to the realities of the Union?In an iconoclastic intervention, Marxist ... Read more

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  • Different Speeds, Same Furies

    Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms

    by Perry Anderson ...
    An exploration of Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell's greatest literary achievements.There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson measures Powell’s achievement against Marcel Proust’s celebrated In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci

    by Perry Anderson ...
    A major essay on the thought of the great Italian MarxistPerry Anderson’s essay “The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has been the subject of book-length attacks across four decades for its disentangling of the hesitations and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

    by Perry Anderson ...
    What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? In the Tracks of Historical Materialism looks at some of the paradoxes in the evolution of Marxist thought in this period. It starts by considering the remarkable and variegated growth of historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brazil Apart

    1964-2019

    by Perry Anderson ...
    Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula’s Workers’ Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New RightWhat does Brazil’s lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America’s largest country, and how has it come about? Always something of a world unto itself, Brazil became, under the Workers’ Party from 2003 to 2016, “the theatre of a socio-political drama without ... Read more

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  • Arguments Within English Marxism

    by Perry Anderson ...
    The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An editor of The New Reasoner in 1957–59, a founder of the New Left in 1960, now an eloquent champion ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

    by Perry Anderson ...
    “One of the world’s great historians” offers a magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire (New Republic).Timely, essential reading for anyone concerned about the current state of US foreign policy.Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

    by Perry Anderson ...
    The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece ... Read more

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