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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books (17 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859845274
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859845271
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society. Its opening section looks at the theories of four major minds of the twentieth-century Right, whose influence has been long-lasting in the Atlantic world: Michael Oakeshott, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and Friedrich von Hayek; thereafter two prominent political writers in contemporary Britain, Ferdinand Mount and Timothy Garton Ash. The Middle section considers the late work of three of the most celebrated liberal philosophers of the time, John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Norberto Bobbio - surveying their respective conceptions of the domestic life of Western Democracies, and of a desirable international order. There follow reflections on a number of significant figures in the culture of the Left: the historians Edward Thompson, Robbert Breenner and Eric Hobsbawm; the classicist Sebastiano Timpanaro; the sociologist Goran Therborn; the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book ends with some comparative observations on the two leading intellectual periodicals of the UK and USA, the London Review of Books and New York Review of Books; and a piece of family history.


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Perry Anderson is the author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, Considerations on Western Marxism, Arguments in English Marxism, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, A Zone of Engagement and The Origins of Postmodernity; he teaches history at UCLA, and serves on the editorial board of New Left Review.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking studies, 2 Jun 2008
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This a very stimulating collection of essays, of enormous intellectual range, provoking thought about matters of politics, philosophy, economics and history.

In the first grouping of essays, on politics, he criticises the reactionaries Michael Oakeshott, Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich von Hayek, Ferdinand Mount and Timothy Garton Ash. In the second, on philosophy, he examines the work of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Norberto Bobbio. In his third section, on history, he surveys more approvingly E. P. Thompson, Sebastiano Timpanaro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Goran Therborn, Robert Brenner and Eric Hobsbawm. In a fourth section, he writes about the London Review of Books and also about his father's strange career in pre-revolutionary China.

Anderson is more critical of the undemocratic EU than he used to be, writing of the `dissolution of popular sovereignty at a European level', and noting, "the less immediately democratic the machinery of decision, the safer it was likely to be for the reproduction of capital."

He provides stinging critiques of idealist thinkers, Tory scoundrel Oakeshott and over-rated social democrat Habermas alike. He shows how Habermas' feeble, wishful embrace of capitalism has led him into supporting both the US empire and the growing EU empire.

Anderson explains why it was right to oppose all Labour's wars, against Habermas' initial support for the wars and subsequent equivocations. Anderson notes that Operation Horseshoe, the supposed Serbian plan for the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, was a forgery produced by the Bulgarian secret service.

He cites the great American liberal philosopher John Rawls, who revealed the truth of American society and government when he wrote, "the purchase of legislation by `special interests' is an everyday thing."
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