Spectrum From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

Renowned historian Perry Anderson takes on leading conservative, liberal and socialist thinkers in this iconoclastic volume. In today's drastic reconfiguration of the world of ideas, how best should we treat its leading forces? "Spectrum "offers a critical survey of the ideas of rival intellectual groupings from the far right, the liberal center, and the Marxist left, rarely considered in the same optic. The book opens with a comparative examination of four remarkable minds of the radical right: Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt. In the liberal and social-democratic center, it considers John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, and Norberto Bobbio. On the Marxist left, it assesses the work of three major historians: Edward Thompson, Robert Brenner and Eric Hobsbawm, and a great philologist, Sebastiano Timpanaro.Anderson, Perry is the author of 'Spectrum From Right to Left in the World of Ideas', published 2007 under ISBN 9781844671359 and ISBN 1844671356.