Perry Anderson (historian)

Perry Anderson, 2012

Perry Anderson (born September 11, 1938 in London ) is a British historian .

Life

Anderson is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles . As a political essayist, he publishes regularly in the London Review of Books and in the New Left Review , of which he was editor for many years (1962–1982 and 2000–2003). In the academic year 1997/1998 Anderson was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Anderson was one of the main protagonists of the intellectual New Left in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, his book Considerations on Western Marxism (1976) had a relatively large impact beyond the borders of the Anglo-Saxon world. Anderson coined the term " Western Marxism ", which according to him arose with Lukacs , Korsch and Gramsci from the 1920s. In addition to these thinkers, he primarily assigns the main representatives of the Frankfurt School to this current of Marxism. For Anderson, Western Marxism is characterized, among other things, by the feature of structural separation from political practice. He had followed Marx's own development in the opposite direction. In his development, Marx moved away from philosophy and towards politics and economics, while Western Marxism, on the other hand, increasingly returned from economics and politics to the terrain of philosophy.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Fonts (selection)

• Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. New Left Books, London 1974, ISBN 0-902308-70-X .
  • From Antiquity to Feudalism: Traces of the Transitional Society. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-518-10922-7 .
• Lineages of the Absolutist State. New Left Books, London 1974, ISBN 0-902308-16-5 . German Translation: The emergence of the absolutist state. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-10950-2 .
• Considerations on Western Marxism. New Left Books, London 1976.
  • About Western Marxism. Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8108-0074-0 .
• Arguments within English Marxism. Verso, London 1980, ISBN 0-86091-030-X .
• In the Tracks of Historical Materialism. Verso, London 1983, ISBN 0-86091-076-8 .
• At the end of the story. Rotbuch, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88022-792-6 .
• According to Ataturk. The Turks, their state and Europe. Translation Joachim Kalka . Berenberg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937834-31-3 .
• A belated encounter. My father's story in China 1914-1941. Berenberg, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937834-38-2 .
• The New Old World. Verso, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84467-312-4 .
• The Indian Ideology. Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon 2012, ISBN 978-81-88789-90-0 .
  • Indian ideology. Essays. Translation Joachim Kalka . Berenberg, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-937834-70-2 .
• American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers. Verso, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-78168-667-6 .
• The Italian disaster. Translation Joachim Kalka . suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-07440-4 .
• The H-Word. The Peripeteia of Hegemony. Verso, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-786633-68-2 .
  • Hegemony. Conjunctions of a term. Translation by Frank Jakubzik . suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-12724-7 .
• The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci. Verso, London 2018 (first 1976), ISBN 978-1-7866-3372-9 .

literature

• Paul Blackledge: Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left , Merlin Press 2004.
• Gregory Elliott: Perry Anderson. The Merciless Laboratory of History , University of Minnesota Press 1999.

Web links

• Literature by and about Perry Anderson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contributions in the archives of the Nation (Engl.)
• Contributions in the archives of The New Left Review (Engl.)
• Contributions in the archives of the London Review of Books (Engl.)
• The Age of Eric Hobsbawm . In: Socialist Hefts for Theory and Practice, Cologne, Heft 5, December 2003 . ( globkult.de - German translation: Hanna Behrend).
• (German transl .: Christoph Jünke ): On the way to Eurabia? - Review of Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution (2009) on Muslim immigration in Europe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Perry Anderson , website of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, accessed on July 31, 2016.
2. ↑ On the history of Anderson's impact, cf. Jan Hoff: Marx global. On the development of the international Marx discourse since 1965. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004611-2 .
3. ↑ Jürgen Kaube : The fever dream that undermines democracy , in: FAZ , November 28, 2015, p. L13