Description
"A very elegant restatement of the undogmatic essence of Marx." -New Statesman
About the Author
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
Anderson evaluates the entire corpus of Thompson's work as a historian and as a socialist ... The result is a fascinating assessment of the man Anderson claims to be 'our finest socialist writer today.' ... In so doing Anderson provides a superb essay in historiography as well as an important chapter of the history of the left in England. * Time Out *
An excellent book-exemplary in its tone, coverage, consistency and, an important point this, in its accessibility. * Sociological Review *
[Anderson] is an exceptionally determined, diligent, careful and intellectually capable thinker. * New Society *
His argument ... takes on an exceptional fluency and subtlety, touching many of the key points of socialist morality, socialist history and the socialist future. Its core is a very elegant restatement of the undogmatic essence of Marx. * New Statesman *
Despite the immense erudition it reads lightly and restores the most diverse theoretical debates to the concrete realities of socialist strategic thinking about contemporary issues. * Chartist *
Book Information
ISBN 9780860917274
Author Perry Anderson
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 260g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 25mm