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.

Assesses the competing claims of theorists from the far right, the liberal centre and the Marxist left

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
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781844671359
Author Perry Anderson
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 604g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 30mm