Perry Anderson (born 1938) is a Marxist intellectual and historian. He is Professor of History and Sociology at UCLA and an editor of the New Left Review. He is the brother of historian Benedict Anderson. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... This article is about the study of time in human terms. ... Sociology (from Latin: socius, companion; and the suffix -ology, the study of, from Greek λόγος, lógos, knowledge) is an academic and applied discipline that studies society and human social interaction. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... In 1960 in the UK, the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards and formed the New Left Review. ... Benedict Richard OGorman Anderson (born August 26, 1936) // Anderson is professor emeritus of International Studies at Cornell University. ...

Achievements

He was an influence on the New Left. He bore the brunt of the disapproval of E. P. Thompson in the latter's The Poverty of Theory, in a controversy during the late 1970s over the scientific Marxism of Louis Althusser, and the use of history and theory in the politics of the Left. In the mid-1960s, Thompson wrote an essay for the annual Socialist Register that rejected Anderson's view of aristocratic dominance of Britain's historical trajectory, as well as Anderson's seeming preference for continental European theorists over radical British traditions and empiricism. Anderson delivered two responses to Thompson's polemics, first in an essay in New Left Review (January-February 1966) called "Socialism and Pseudo-Empiricism" and then in a more conciliatory yet ambitious overview, Arguments within English Marxism (1980). The New Left is a term used in different countries to describe left-wing movements that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. ... Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 - August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. ... Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation: altuˡseʁ) (October 16, 1918 – October 22, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ...

As author

Anderson is the author of numerous books, including The Origins of Postmodernity (1998) and In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1983). He has also provided explorations of European history and social development in the volumes Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974) and Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974).

While Anderson has faced many attacks in his native Britain for favoring continental European philosophers over British thinkers, he has not spared Western European Marxists from criticism; see his Considerations on Western Marxism (1976). Nevertheless, many of his assaults have been delivered against postmodernist currents in continental Europe. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism regards Paris as the new capital of intellectual reaction, quite at odds with others who treat postmodernism as a left heresy. Western Marxism is a term used to describe a wide variety of Marxist theoreticians based in Western and Central Europe (and more recently North America), in contrast with philosophy in the Soviet Union. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...

In an article for the The Atlantic Monthly, Christopher Hitchens claimed Anderson was both “the most profound essayist wielding a pen” and "on the wrong side of history." The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British-American author, journalist and literary critic. ...

Anderson frequently contributes to the London Review of Books. The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a twice-monthly British literary magazine. ...

New Left Review

Editor of New Left Review from 1962-1982 and 2000-2003, he currently serves on this journal's editorial committee. In 1960 in the UK, the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards and formed the New Left Review. ...

Works on Anderson

• Perry Anderson : the merciless laboratory of history by Gregory Elliott (1998)
• Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left by Paul Blackledge (2004)

External links

• Archive of Perry Anderson's articles for The Nation
• Archive of Perry Anderson's articles for The New Left Review
• The essays "Dégringolade" (2004), "Union Sucrée" (2004) and "Russia’s Managed Democracy" (2007) in the London Review of Books.