Perry Anderson

Also known as Richard Merton, Francis Rory Peregrine Anderson, Francis R. Anderson

Occupation: historian, sociologist, opinion journalist, philosopher
Position held: professor emeritus
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Born: September 11, 1938

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Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (nascido em 11 de setembro de 1938) é um intelectual, historiador e ensaísta britânico. Seu trabalho abrange a sociologia histórica, a história intelectual e a análise cultural. O que une o trabalho de Anderson é uma preocupação com o marxismo ocidental. Anderson é talvez mais conhecido como a força motriz por trás da New Left Review. Ele é Professor de História e Sociologia na University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Anderson escreveu muitos livros, mais recentemente Brazil Apart: 1964-2019 e The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony. Ele é irmão do cientista político Benedict Anderson (1936–2015). Antecedentes e início de vida Anderson nasceu em Londres em 11 de setembro de 1938. Seu pai, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson (1893–1946), conhecido como Séamas, um oficial da Chinese Maritime Customs, nasceu em uma família anglo-irlandesa, o filho mais novo do Brigadeiro-General Sir Francis Anderson, de Ballydavid, County Waterford. Ele descendia da família Anderson de Ardbrake, Bothriphnie, Escócia, que se estabeleceu na Irlanda no início do século XVIII. A mãe de Anderson, Veronica Beatrice Mary Bigham, era inglesa,<ref>"The Influence of Benedict Anderson".</ref> filha de Trevor Bigham, que foi o Vice-Comissário da London Metropolitan Police, 1914–1931. A avó de Anderson, Frances, Lady Anderson, pertencia ao clã Gaelic Gorman do County Clare e era filha do Membro do Parlamento do Irish Home Rule Major Purcell O'Gorman, ele próprio filho de Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman que havia se envolvido com a Republican Society of United Irishmen durante a Rebelião de 1798, tornando-se mais tarde Secretário da Catholic Association na década de 1820. O pai de Anderson havia sido anteriormente casado com a romancista Stella Benson, e foi após a morte dela em 1933 que ele se casou novamente.

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Also known as Richard Merton, Francis Rory Peregrine Anderson, Francis R. Anderson

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“The most advanced socialist thought in England is Raymond Williams’ superbly intricate and persuasive work... Any English Marxism will have to measure itself against this landmark in our social thought.”
— "Socialism and pseudo-empiricism". New Left Review 35 (1966): 2-42; as cited in: Blackledge, Paul. Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left. Merlin Press, 2004. p. 91.
“Historically, Garton Ash belongs to the last levy of the Cold War, a cohort fired by an uncomplicated anti-Communism. His staunchness made him a natural candidate for recruitment to MI6, which propositioned him early on, as it had Ascherson in his time.”
— Ch. 3. "Dreams of Central Europe: Timothy Garton Ash" (1999), p. 65, Originally published as "A Ripple of the Polonaise", London Review of Books (25 November, 1999)
“It will take time to get a more settled sense of Thompson’s distinction as a historian and a writer. His work spans too many forms for easy judgement, and its aura can be a temptation to short cuts. But a tension between what might be called his nineteenth and his eighteenth century sensibility was certainly at the creative centre of it.”
— Ch. 8. "In Memoriam: Edward Thompson" (1993)
“The – now shop-worn – label of ‘magical realism’ is customarily applied to Márquez’s novels. It has never fitted Vargas Llosa, who disavows the adjective.”
— Ch 10. "Tropical Recall: Gabriel García Márquez" (2005)
“All hegemonies have their limits, and no policies ever achieve just what they intend. But the salient feature of the present is not that the world at large is out of control, but that it has never been subject to such an extent of control by one power, acting to diffuse and enforce one system, as we see today.”
— Ch. 13. "The Vanquished Left: Eric Hobsbawm" (2002)
“Far from participating in a current literary scene agog with vogue and hyperbole, the LRB has kept what is widely perceived as a mandarin aloofness from it. Complicity with the institutions of literature, whether patrons or advertisers, is scarcely a charge that can be made against the paper.”
— Debts 1. "The London Review of Books" (1996; 2005)

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