
Spectrum
From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
Perry Anderson(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-84467-135-9 (ISBN)
Description
The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theories of major minds of the twentieth-century Right, including Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and Friedrich von Hayek; liberal philosophers such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Norberto Bobbio; and significant figures in the culture of the Left: the historians Edward Thompson, Robert Brenner and Eric Hobsbawm; the classicist Sebastiano Timpanaro; the sociologist Goran Therborn; the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book concludes with some comparative observations on the two leading intellectual periodicals of the UK and USA, the London Review of Books and New York Review of Books; and a piece of family history.
Reviews / Votes
Sheer pleasure-one of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age. * Times Literary Supplement * Dazzling and unyielding-Anderson remains an inspiring example of thinking in the world, about the world and for the world. * The Nation * The most polymathic, and the most profound, essayist currently wielding a pen. * Atlantic Monthly *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-135-9 (9781844671359)
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Person
Perry Anderson taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is an Editor at New Left Review. Recent books include Brazil Apart, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci and The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony.

