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Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.

From the London Review dated 23 September 2004

Union Sucrée

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“The wider puzzle remains: what explains the strange contrast between a unique literary cosmopolitanism and so much intellectual parochialism in France? It is tempting to wonder whether the answer lies simply in the relative self-confidence of each sector: the continuing native vitality of French history and theory inducing indifference to foreign output, and the declining prestige of French letters prompting compensation in the role of a universal dragoman. There may be something in this, but it cannot be the whole story.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005)
  • The Origins of Postmodernity (1998)
  • A Zone of Engagement (1992)
  • English Questions (1992)
  • In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1983)
  • Lineages of the Absolutist State (1979)
  • Considerations on Western Marxism (1976)
  • Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1975)

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