PERRY ANDERSON,
Marxism and the New Left
by Paul Blackledge
For over forty years,
Perry Anderson has been one of the most influential figures on the intellectual
Left. Through his writings, publishing, editing of New Left Review, and teaching
at UCLA, he has introduced and disseminated a range of European Marxist opinion
to the English speaking world: Deutscher, Gramsci, Sartre, Lukács,
Althusser, Poulantzas, to name a few. His own books are seminal contributions
to political theory. This survey of Anderson’s works explores a range
of political writings, considers the evolution of an influential current of
New Left thinking from the 1960’s onwards, and reviews its engagement
with critical theorists such as Brenner, Fukuyama and Jameson. “an impressively
clear, concise, well-structured, and generally balanced intellectual biography
of one of the central figures in post-war British Marxism”
Dr Gregory Elliot
Contents: Introduction; Anderson and the First New Left; the Second New Left;
Towards Revolutionary Socialism; a Revolutionary Strategy for the West; a
Flawed Synthesis; the Retreat from Revolution; Post-modern Renewals; Conclusion;
Chronology; Bibliography.
Paul Blackledge is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is co-editor of Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (2002) and an editor of the journal, Historical Materialism.
xii, 210 pages 234 x 156 mm.
ISBN. 0850365325
Paperback
£16.95