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Title: A Zone of Engagement by Perry Anderson ISBN: 0-86091-595-6 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: a fascinating collection of essays
Comment: Perry Anderson, one of the leading minds of the NEW LEFT REVIEW, has collected here a series of critical engagments on some of the most important intellectuals of our time. Cosmopolitan, internationalist,multilingual, Anderson has provided a series of essays that are breathtaking in their wideness of vision. He begins with a complex essay discussing the fall of the Roman Empire in comparison with G.E.M de Ste Croix's The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. He then provides a compelling explanation for the development of modernism and modernist culture. He examines and intelligently and sympathetically critiques wide-ranging analysis of the development of human society by Lord Runciman and Michael Mann. From examining the Italian liberal Norberto Bobbio, to the Brazillian communitarian of Roberto Unger, and to the czech sociologist Ernest Gellner, he moves on to discuss the nature of witchcraft with Carlo Ginzburg, pluralism and the development of liberty in Isaiah Berlin, and nationalism and national character with Fernand Braudel. Finally he discusses Francis Fukuyama and asks whether Marxism has any meaning after the end of history. He concedes nothing to sentiment, but still provides a clear defence. If there is a weakness in the book, it lies in a perhaps too sympathetic account of German diplomatic historian Andreas Hilgruber, and a surprisingly uncritical citing of Vaclav Havel. But otherwise Anderson consistently shows a profoundity and range of reading that makes the intellectuals of the New Republic and the New Yorker appear insular and narrowminded.
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Title: The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson ISBN: 1859842224 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989 by Perry Anderson ISBN: 1859845320 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Figures in the Forest by Perry Anderson ISBN: 1859845274 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series) by Fredric Jameson ISBN: 0822310902 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Illuminations by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0805202412 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 1969 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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