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Spectrum
Perry Anderson
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Description for Spectrum
Paperback. Offers a critical survey of the ideas of rival intellectual groupings from the far right, the liberal center and the Marxist left, rarely considered in the same optic. This book presents a comparative examination of four remarkable minds of the radical right: Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 644.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844671359
SKU
V9781844671359
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About Perry Anderson
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.
Reviews for Spectrum
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
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