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Perry Anderson
Sign in to saveAlso known as Richard Merton, Francis Rory Peregrine Anderson, Francis R. Anderson, Perry R. Anderson, Perry L. Anderson
British historian (born 1938)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 11 September 1938
- Works
- 21
Top works
- The origins of postmodernity
- Sur Gramsci
- The Ends of History
- Towards Socialism
- Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,219x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
· 2006 · cited 14,479x
- The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary
· 2016 · cited 13,206x
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Quotes
- “The most advanced socialist thought in England is Raymond Williams’ superbly intricate and persuasive work... Any English Marxism will have to measure itself against this landmark in our social thought.”
- “Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent.”
- “The classical legacies of political thought, from Plato to Nietzsche, and the immediate tasks of running the world, at home and abroad, have been of most concern to the Right. Normative philosophical constructions have become a specialty of the Centre. Economic, social and cultural investigations – of past and present – dominate the output of the Left. Any attempt to come to grips with all three outlooks is thus obliged to traverse quite variegated ground.”
- “Historically, Garton Ash belongs to the last levy of the Cold War, a cohort fired by an uncomplicated anti-Communism. His staunchness made him a natural candidate for recruitment to MI6, which propositioned him early on, as it had Ascherson in his time.”
- “Values – ethical, epistemological, aesthetic – figure in the contests over the field, but they do not define it. Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”
- “The first, and most obvious, feature that separates Habermas’s later treatment of law from his original study of the public sphere is its completely unhistorical method.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Francis Rory Peregrine Anderson , 11 September 1938 ( 1938-09-11 ) (age 87), London, England
- Occupations
- Historian and political essayist
- Spouse
- Juliet Mitchell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 )
- Relatives
- Benedict Anderson (brother)
- Alma mater
- Worcester College, Oxford
- School or tradition
- New Left
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- Perry Anderson at Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1938-09-11
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- Perry Anderson
- pseudonym
- Richard Merton
- birth name
- Francis Rory Peregrine Anderson
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Article
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).