Articles by Perry Anderson
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Counterpuncher
in NLR 85, January-February 2014, pp. 39-65
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Media
Retrospective on the liberated life and work of Alexander Cockburn, whose last book, A Colossal Wreck, completes a dazzling triptych. Shaping influences of family, place and political epoch on a singularly radical temperament, and the keen-edged prose in which it found expression.
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Consilium
in NLR 83, September-October 2013, pp. 113-167
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , United States , International Relations
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Imperium
in NLR 83, September-October 2013, pp. 5-111
Subjects: United States , International Relations
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Homeland
in NLR 81, May-June 2013, pp. 5-32
Subjects: United States
Deadlocks of American politics viewed within a longer optic, as outcomes of interlocking determinants—regime of accumulation, sociological shifts, cultural mutations, catalytic minorities—within an all-capitalist ideological universe.
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Ronald Fraser, 1930–2012
in NLR 75, May-June 2012, pp. 39-59
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , History and Historiography , Spain
Tribute to the author of Blood of Spain, locating the impulse behind his oeuvre in a commitment to explore lived experience. Reconstructions of work, war, politics and subjectivity, from Napoleonic era to post-Fordist present.
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After the Event
in NLR 73, January-February 2012, pp. 49-61
Subjects: Europe
Replying to critics, Anderson renews his critique of European narcissism, before turning to the dynamics of the EU debt crisis, and Berlin’s role in producing and exacerbating it.
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Lucio Magri
in NLR 72, November-December 2011, pp. 111-121
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Italy
Homage to an outstanding figure of the European Left, who fought to preserve the link between radical thought and mass politics as Italy’s Communist tradition dissolved around him.
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The Mythologian
in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 135-140
Subjects: Anthropology , France
Perry Anderson on Patrick Wilcken, Claude-Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory. Deciphering the life and thought of the anthropological mage.
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On the Concatenation in the Arab World
in NLR 68, March-April 2011, pp. 5-15
Subjects: Arab World , Political Theory and Strategy
From Tunis to Manama, 2011 has brought a chain-reaction of popular upheavals, in a region where imperial domination and domestic despotism have long been entwined. A call for political liberty to reconnect with social equality and Arab fraternity, in a radical new internationalism.
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Two Revolutions
in NLR 61, January-February 2010, pp. 59-96
Subjects: China , Soviet Union and Russia
How to explain the opposed outcomes for communism in Russia and China, after 1989? Classes and leaders, anciens régimes and external settings, examined in comparative perspective.
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A New Germany?
in NLR 57, May-June 2009, pp. 5-40
Subjects: Germany
What have been the outcomes of reunification in the Federal Republic? Perry Anderson charts contradictory cross-currents within its polity, economy, culture and society, gauging the impact of a contested neoliberal offensive on the ‘Modell Deutschland’ and its intellectual life.
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Jottings on the Conjuncture
in NLR 48, November-December 2007, pp. 5-37
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , International Relations
A reckoning of global shifts in political and economic relations, with China emerging as new workshop of the world and US power, rationally applied elsewhere, skewed by Israeli interests in the Middle East. Oppositions to it gauged, along with theoretical visions that offer exits from the perpetual free-market present.
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The World Made Flesh
in NLR 39, May-June 2006, pp. 132-139
Subjects: Social Theory
Perry Anderson on Hervé Juvin, L’avènement du corps. Premonitions of a new regime of individualism under the aegis of the human body, as life distends and capital mutates to meet it.
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Arms and Rights
in NLR 31, January-February 2005, pp. 5-40
Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy , War and Peace
In an era of serial war, Rawls, Habermas and Bobbio as theorists of a perpetual peace. Jurisprudence and force in three parallel philosophical constructions of the present international order, and the unsettled afterthoughts—American, German, Italian—that accompanied them.
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The River of Time
in NLR 26, March-April 2004, pp. 67-77
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Perry Anderson responds to Fredric Jameson’s ‘Politics of Utopia’ in NLR 25. Lessons for the glacial political present from Bloch and Adorno, Fourier and Lao Tse—and conditions for the renewal of utopian energies.
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Force and Consent
in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 5-30
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States , War and Peace , Iraq
As war looms again in the Middle East, what are the aims of the Republican Administration, and how far do they mark a break in the long-term objectives of US global strategy? The changing elements of American hegemony in the post-Cold War world.
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Internationalism: a Breviary
in NLR 14, March-April 2002, pp. 5-25
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , International Relations
The metamorphoses of nationalism and internationalism, from the time of Kant to the ‘revolution in military affairs’. Social bases, ideological forms, geopolitical locations.
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The Oslo Accords
in NLR 10, July-August 2001, pp. 5-30
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Palestine/Israel
Behind the second Intifada lies a century of conflict in Palestine. What are its roots, and what are its prospects? The Oslo Accords, the Israeli landscape and the Arab world.
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US Elections: Testing Formula Two
in NLR 8, March-April 2001, pp. 5-22
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States
If the eighties were the decade of the Right in the West, the nineties saw a comparable sweep by the Centre-Left. Does the loss of the US Presidency by the Democrats presage another turn of the wheel in Atlantic politics? With Bush at the helm in the New World, what are the prospects for the Gores of the Old?
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Renewals
in NLR 1, January-February 2000, pp. 5-24
Subjects: Media , New Left , Political Theory and Strategy , World Economy and Globalization
As New Left Review enters its fifth decade, a stock-taking of the journal. Where has it come from, and where is it going? How should the political and cultural scene of the nineties be assessed? A manifesto for the new series of NLR that begins with this issue.
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A Reply to Norberto Bobbio
in NLR I/231, September-October 1998, pp. 91-93
Subjects: Italy , Political Theory and Strategy , Europe
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A Sense of the Left
in NLR I/231, September-October 1998, pp. 73-81
Subjects: Italy , Political Theory and Strategy , Europe
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A Culture in Contraflow--II
in NLR I/182, July-August 1990, pp. 85-137
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
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A Culture in Contraflow--I
in NLR I/180, March-April 1990, pp. 41-78
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
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Roberto Unger and the Politics of Empowerment
in NLR I/173, January-February 1989, pp. 93-107
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
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The Affinities of Norberto Bobbio
in NLR I/170, July-August 1988, pp. 3-36
Subjects: Italy , Political Theory and Strategy
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The Figures of Descent
in NLR I/161, January-February 1987, pp. 20-77
Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography
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Modernity and Revolution
in NLR I/144, March-April 1984, pp. 96-113
Subjects: Aesthetics
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Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism
in NLR I/139, May-June 1983, pp. 49-58
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Soviet Union and Russia
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The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
in NLR I/100, November-December 1976, pp. 5-78
Subjects: Italy , Political Theory and Strategy
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Components of the National Culture
in NLR I/50, July-August 1968, pp. 3-57
Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
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Socialism and Pseudo-Empiricism
in NLR I/35, January-February 1966, pp. 2-42
Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
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The Left in the Fifties
in NLR I/29, January-February 1965, pp. 3-18
Subjects: Britain , New Left , Political Theory and Strategy
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Critique of Wilsonism
in NLR I/27, September-October 1964, pp. 3-27
Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
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Origins of the Present Crisis
in NLR I/23, January-February 1964, pp. 26-53
Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
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Portugal and the End of Ultra-Colonialism (Part 3)
in NLR I/17, Winter 1962, pp. 85-114
Subjects: Africa , Political Theory and Strategy , Portugal
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Portugal and the End of Ultra-Colonialism (Part 2)
in NLR I/16, July-August 1962, pp. 88-123
Subjects: Africa , Political Theory and Strategy , Portugal
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Portugal and the End of Ultra-Colonialism- Part I
in NLR I/15, May-June 1962, pp. 83-102
Subjects: Africa , Political Theory and Strategy , Portugal
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The Debate of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party on the 22nd Congress of the CPSU
in NLR I/13-14, January-April 1962, pp. 152-160
Subjects: Communist Movement , Italy
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The Politics of the Common Market
in NLR I/10, July-August 1961, pp. 1-14
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Europe
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Sweden: Study in Social Democracy (Part 2)
in NLR I/9, May-June 1961, pp. 34-45
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Sweden
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Sweden: Mr.Crosland's Dreamland (Part 1)
in NLR I/7, January-February 1961, pp. 4-12
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Sweden
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