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Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
By Perry Anderson
Publication: 25th February, 2008
ISBN 9781844671359/ $24.95/ £14.99/ $32CAN
“A powerful and lucid intelligence.” Eric Hobsbawm, New Statesman
“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
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, Jürgen 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 Timparano; the sociologist Göran Therborn; the novelist Gabriel Garcίa Márquez. 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.
Author: Perry Anderson is the author of many books, including Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Lineages of the Absolutist State, The Origins of Postmodernity and A Zone of Engagement, all from Verso. His works have been translated into twenty languages.
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