Spectrum
From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
Published on 5. May 2020
416 pages
978-1-78960-309-5 (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.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-309-5 (9781789603095)
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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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- I. Politics
- 1. The Intransigent Right: Michael Oakeshott, Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich von Hayek
- 2. Constitutional Theatre: Ferdinand Mount
- 3. Dreams of Central Europe: Timothy Garton Ash
- II. Philosophy
- 4. Designing Consensus: John Rawls
- 5. Norming Facts: Jürgen Habermas
- 6. Plotting Values: Norberto Bobbio
- 7. Arms and Rights: The Adjustable Centre
- III. History
- 8. In Memoriam: Edward Thompson
- 9. Philologist Extraordinary: Sebastiano Timpanaro
- 10. Tropical Recall: Gabriel García Márquez
- 11. Atlas of the Family: Göran Therborn
- 12. Civil War, Global Distemper: Robert Brenner
- 13. The Vanquished Left: Eric Hobsbawm
- Debts
- 1. The London Review of Books
- 2. An Anglo-Irishman in China: J.C. O'G. Anderson
- Notes
- Index of Names
