Concept
Perry Anderson
Overview
Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938) is a British intellectual, political philosopher, historian and essayist. His work ranges across historical sociology, intellectual history, and cultural analysis. Anderson's early work was more theoretical, concerned with working out problems in historical materialism. His mature work is marked by a concern with intellectual biographies and national histories.
Anderson is perhaps best known as the moving force behind the New Left Review. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Anderson has written many books, most recently Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms and Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War. He is the brother of political scientist Benedict Anderson (1936–2015).
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If British liberal social philosophy tended, true to the spirit of its atomistic empiricism, to make freedom and the exercise of rights ends in themselves, the remedy is not to be found in recourse to a philosophy of fixed obligations and authoritative law such as characterized German political thinking. The latter, as events have demonstrated, is dangerous because of its implicit menace to the free…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Perry Anderson; the term itself is not named.
But in Germany the judgement of my theories depended on the party politics of the press, while English science did not allow its sense of objectivity to be disturbed by political views. The English people have had a great influence on the development of science, and so have tackled the examination of the theory of relativity with particular energy and particular success. Whilst in America, again, anti-Semitism knows…
Albert Einstein, About Zionism
States what Perry Anderson is.
It has seemed coercive to an enormous number of contemporaneous thinkers. Professor Henry Jones thus describes the range and influence of it upon the social and political life of the present time:[5] 'For many years adherents of this way of thought have deeply interested the british public by their writings. Almost more important than their writings is the fact that they have occupied philosophical chairs in almost…
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
Close in meaning to Perry Anderson; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Perry Anderson
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Metropolitan Police
- Political philosophy
- University of California, Los Angeles
- New Left
- London Review of Books
- Western Marxism
- Historical materialism
- Intellectual history
- New York City
- Absolute monarchy
- Louis Althusser
- Irish republicanism
- Socialist Register
Place in the tradition
Part of Postmodernism.