新书讯：佩里·安德森《新的旧世界》
新书讯：佩里·安德森《新的旧世界》
The New Old World , by Perry Anderson. @ Amazon
* Pub. Date: December 2009
* Publisher: Verso
* Format: Hardcover, 364 pages
* ISBN-13: 9781844673124
* ISBN: 184467312X
Magisterial analysis of Europe’s development since the end of the Cold War
A major work of modern history and political analysis, The New Old World punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe. Surveying the post-Cold War trajectory of European power and the halting progress towards social and economic integration, Perry Anderson draws out the connections between the EU’s eastward expansion, a foreign policy largely subservient to America’s, and the popular rejection of the European Constitution.
As a neoliberal economic project, pushed forward by a succession of centrist governments, the European Union cannot afford to allow its peoples a free choice that might dash elite schemes of a post-national democracy. Anderson explores Hayek’s suggestion that protecting a market economy might require exactly this kind of inter-state structure, out of reach of popular opposition. With landmark chapters on France, Germany, Italy and Turkey, and a wide-ranging survey of current theories of the Union, The New Old World offers an iconoclastic portrait of a continent that is now being increasingly hailed as a moral and political exemplar for the world at large.
Praise for Perry Anderson
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“Sheer pleasure … one of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age.” — Times Literary Supplement
“The breath-taking range of conception and the architectural skill with which it has been executed make his work a formidable intellectual achievement.” — New York Review of Books
“A powerful and lucid intelligence.” Eric Hobsbawm, New Statesman
Perry Anderson is the author of Spectrum , Lineages of the Absolutist State , Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism , Considerations on Western Marxism , English Questions , Arguments in English Marxism , In the Tracks of Historical Materialism , A Zone of Engagement and The Origins of Postmodernity ; he teaches history at UCLA, and serves on the editorial board of New Left Review .
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