Perry Anderson citations

Perry Anderson, né le 11 septembre 1938 à Londres, est un intellectuel et historien britannique. Il a été rédacteur en chef de la New Left Review de 1962 à 1982 puis de 2000 à 2003. Il est professeur d'histoire et de sociologie à l'université de Californie à Los Angeles.

Il est le frère cadet de l'historien Benedict Anderson. Wikipedia  

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Perry Anderson: Citations en anglais

“Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent.”

Source: Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Foreword, p. xi

“The greater pleasures of reading the LRB are thus paid for in a more erratic and limited horizon.”

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Debts 1. "The London Review of Books" (1996; 2005)

“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.”

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Ch 10. "Tropical Recall, Gabriel García Márquez" (2005)

“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.”

Perry Anderson, " Socialism and pseudo-empiricism http://newleftreview.org/static/assets/archive/pdf/NLR03401.pdf." New Left Review 35 (1966): 2-42; as cited in: Blackledge, Paul. Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left. Merlin Press, 2004. p. 91.

“Great men have foibles for which they can be forgiven; including an occasional failure to see where their greatness lies, or what might diminish it.”

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), 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)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Perry Anderson / Quotes / Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005)
Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Debts 1. "The London Review of Books" (1996; 2005)

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