Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left

For over forty years, Perry Anderson has been one of the most influential figures on the intellectual Left. Through his writings, publishing, editing of New Left Review, and teaching at UCLA, he has introduced and disseminated a range of European Marxist opinion to the English speaking world: Deutscher, Gramsci, Sartre, Lukács, Althusser, Poulantzas, to name a few. His own books are seminal contributions to political theory. This survey of Anderson's works explores a range of political writings, considers the evolution of an influential current of New Left thinking from the 1960's onwards, and reviews its engagement with critical theorists such as Brenner, Fukuyama and Jameson. "an impressively clear, concise, well-structured, and generally balanced intellectual biography of one of the central figures in post-war British Marxism"
Dr Gregory Elliot

Contents: Introduction; Anderson and the First New Left; the Second New Left; Towards Revolutionary Socialism; a Revolutionary Strategy for the West; a Flawed Synthesis; the Retreat from Revolution; Post-modern Renewals; Conclusion; Chronology; Bibliography.

Paul Blackledge is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is co-editor of Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (2002) and an editor of the journal, Historical Materialism.