398pp., vxvii. Stated: "First published by Verso 2005" with '1' in number line. Black boards with brilliant silver lettering on spine. White dustwrapper not price-clipped ($35) with title lettering in dark gray at top center front cover, above subtitle and author name lettering in medium gray; large illustration of abstract art on lower half front cover, Morris Louis' "Theta Gamma". Dustwrapper hasThin line of wear across top spine and hint of wear at cover corners, else Fine. Artifact looks As New, unopened, unused, but belied by 12 pages (of 398 pp.) (between p. xii of Foreword and only within Chs. 1 and 2, up to p. 36) having small amounts of ink underlining (4 pp a single small check-mark (1 p has 2 check-marks); 7 pp. have underlining, with worst case having 9 lines underlined and 1 p with 8, else very short, scant): Describes much worse than it is, but there you have it: pp. 37-398 are Clean, Unmarked. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks; NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names.

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Title: Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
Publisher: Verso / New Left Books, London / New York
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1859845274
ISBN 13: 9781859845271
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theories of major minds of the twentieth-century Right, including Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and Friedrich von Hayek; liberal philosophers such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Norberto Bobbio; and significant figures in the culture of the Left: the historians Edward Thompson, Robert Brenner and Eric Hobsbawm; the classicist Sebastiano Timpanaro; the sociologist Goran Therborn; the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book concludes with some comparative observations on the two leading intellectual periodicals of the UK and USA, the London Review of Books and New York Review of Books; and a piece of family history.

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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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