Synopsis
La naturaleza política del absolutismo ha sido frecuente tema de controversia dentro del materialismo histórico. Prosiguiendo el análisis iniciado en Transiciones de la Antigüedad al feudalismo, Anderson sitúa a los Estados absolutistas de los comienzos de la Edad Moderna sobre el telón de fondo del anterior feudalismo europeo.
En la primera parte de la obra se analizan las estructuras generales del absolutismo como sistema de Estados, en Europa occidental, a partir del Renacimiento; y se discute la difícil cuestión de las relaciones entre monarquía y nobleza que se institucionalizan a través del Estado absolutista, para cuya transformación en el tiempo el autor propone un esquema general de periodización. Se estudian después las trayectorias de los Estados absolutistas de España, Francia, Inglaterra y Suecia, comparándolos con el caso italiano, en el que no llegó a formarse un verdadero absolutismo.
La segunda parte esboza una perspectiva comparativa del absolutismo en Europa oriental, para tratar de comprender las razones por las que las distintas condiciones sociales de la mitad más atrasada del continente desembocan, no obstante, en formas políticas aparentemente similares a las occidentales. Se estudian las monarquías absolutistas de Prusia, Austria y Rusia; el contraejemplo polaco muestra cuál es el precio histórico de la incapacidad de la nobleza y la monarquía polacas para crear un Estado absolutista; el Imperio Otomano de los Balcanes se utiliza como contraste para subrayar la singularidad del absolutismo como fenómeno europeo. La obra se cierra con una discusión de la posición especial que ocupa el desarrollo europeo en la historia universal, haciendo hincapié en el significado de la herencia de la Antigüedad clásica.
Dos extensos apéndices estudian, por último, la noción de “modo de producción asiático” y la trayectoria histórica del feudalismo japonés, el único feudalismo surgido fuera de Europa.
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About the Author
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
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“A dazzlingly provocative narrative of the two millennia between Pericles and Louis XIV”—Books of the Year, Sunday Times
“A Marxist masterpiece, which should be in every single library in order to ‘end the night of our ignorance’ on the many themes which Anderson discusses.”—Books and Bookmen
“The breadth of reading, the acuteness of Anderson’s social insight, the subtlety and power of his writing at its best, and, above all, the consistency of his overall intellectual control of the project are enormously impressive.”—The Listener
“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
“What an intellectual pleasure it has been to read these texts. Anderson has a real ability for illuminating and succinct generalisation.”—Times Higher Educational Supplement
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. 573 p., 21 cm. "The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism." From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998). Seller Inventory # 2503260137
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