Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left

This survey of the political writings of Perry Anderson explores the evolution of an influential current of new leftist thinking that has developed in the last 50 years and reviews its engagement with critical theorists such as Ernst Brenner, Francis Fukuyama, and Federic Jameson. Anderson is the editor of the New Left Review and a professor at University of California at Los Angeles, where he published articles on a range of European Marxist opinions including Deutscher, Gramsci, Sartre, Lukács, Althusser, and Poulantzas. Anderson's contributions to political theory are recorded and illuminated in terms of postmodern and leftist theory.

About the Author:
Paul Blackledge is a senior lecturer and professor of politics at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Historical Materialism and Social Evolution and serves on the editorial board of Historical Materialism.