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“... to imagine why that might be an unsettling experience, as well as an unlikely one. Curiously, Perry Anderson had, three or four years earlier, been trying to imagine Weber in front of a television set, as a way of making a comparison between Gellner’s complacent-seeming endorsement of post-1945 mass affluence and Weber’s more agonised reflections ...”

“... Marxism as a whole. It was the key moment in a shift from classical to ‘Western’ Marxism which Perry Anderson has charted; from politics to culture, revolutionary optimism to a gathering melancholia, materialist science to a reliance on traditional philosophy. Wiggershaus’s scholarly nose is too close to his materials to allow for much speculation ...”

“... implications conveniently on display. They must first be interpreted; and the same experience, as Perry Anderson has observed, can lead to diametrically opposite political conclusions. It is true, as Jay points out, that experience is generally a conservative concept, along with such cognates as custom, habit, tradition and common sense; but radicals ...”

“... actual to the utopian is made, in contrast with William Morris’s News from Nowhere, which, as Perry Anderson has noted, is that rarest of socialist utopias, one which describes in some detail how the revolution actually came about. Nor are they especially interested in what their utopias look like. The stage-setting is generally accomplished in ...”

“... interviews with him in this collection testify well enough. Far more than Raymond Williams or Perry Anderson, and more persistently than E.P. Thompson, Hall has been the Left’s finest instance of the strategic intellectual, the theorist as mediator and interventionist, broker and communicator, bringing the more arcane flights of Frankfurtian or ...”

“... Edinburgh. At the time of his sacking, Nairn had already begun to develop what’s known as the ‘Anderson-Nairn thesis’, an ambitious attempt with Perry Anderson to reorient British Marxism towards a more totalising, global and long-view interpretation of British history, capable of explaining the mounting crisis of ...”

“... particularly as subsequently developed in Ecstasies (1990), has met with considerable scepticism (Perry Anderson was highly critical of it in the LRB), but is triumphantly vindicated in Behringer’s Shaman of Oberstdorf, an extraordinary account of the beliefs of an Alpine horse wrangler executed in 1587. Chonrad Stoeckhlin believed that he travelled ...”

“... arguments. The first was Politics and Letters (1979), a big book of specific questions posed by Perry Anderson, Anthony Barnett and Francis Mulhern, members of the editorial committee of New Left Review; and of answers, rarely as specific or pointed, offered by Williams. The second section of Politics and Letters includes detailed criticism of The Long ...”

“... by the evident and overwhelming consensus in favour of neo-liberalism, a consensus which, as Perry Anderson recently argued in his relaunch of New Left Review, ‘rules undivided across the globe: the most successful ideology in world history’. On the other hand, in a post-Cold War and, more locally, increasingly Europeanised environment, there ...”

“... concerning himself instead with the messy theoretical debate Thompson conducted in 1978 with Perry Anderson about Althusser’s structuralism, which he argues led Thompson to narrow his concept of the moral economy to apply solely to the 18th-century food riots. Yet Thompson’s history-in-practice shows a different kind of influence. The grainy ...”

“... us if we don’t also know how to read the signs in the street.’ In response to a critique by Perry Anderson of his book All That is Solid Melts into Air, he declares his position: ‘Another reason that I’ve written so much about ordinary people and everyday life in the street ... is that Anderson’s vision is ...”

“... and an autobiography. But above all it is an account of how Ali – who, like comrades such as Perry Anderson, Richard Gott and Robin Blackburn, is now in his eighties – has sustained a particular kind of political life, which younger leftists are unlikely to be able to enjoy.Ali’s first volume of memoirs, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography ...”

“... that decade – in no special order. First, my slightly younger brother, known to the world as Perry Anderson, but within the family by his original Irish name, Rory. After graduating from Oxford, I think in 1959, he plunged into Marxist politics and intellectual life. Along with some of his Oxford friends, he quickly moved to work at the recently ...”

“... not genuine; Dworkin tells us this, too. Therefore ... The Nazis looked to youth for redemption; Perry Anderson looks to youth for redemption. Therefore ... The Stalinist György Lukacs despised his Habsburgian inheritance; so did Arnold Schoenberg, Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos. Therefore ... Marxists believe that the nature of a society is determined by ...”

“... Betar, had given birth to the Irgun. This right-wing Revisionist tradition has been described by Perry Anderson as intellectually more distinguished than Labour Zionism, a tribute from an unlikely source but true enough, and Jabotinsky was without doubt more intellectually honest than other Zionists. In effect he agreed with those Arabs who insisted ...”