Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson was born in 1938. He taught History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is considered one of the most significant contemporary Marxist thinkers, playing a pivotal role in the transmission of radical ideas from continental Europe to the Anglo-Saxon world, as well as in critiquing the theoretical currents of postmodernism. He directed the British "New Left Review" from 1962 to 1982 and again from 2000 to 2003, and he remains on its editorial board to this day. He also frequently writes for the "London Review of Books," commenting on current developments with a broad oversight of historical and cultural contexts. His books available in Greek include: "Western Marxism" (translated by Alekos P. Zannas, Kedros Publications), "The Absolutist State" (translated by Eleni Asteriou, Odysseas Publications), "From Antiquity to Feudalism" (translated by Eleni Asteriou, Odysseas Publications), and "The Divisions of Cyprus" (translated by Kostas Raptis, Agra Publications). The first volume of the Greek edition of the "New Left Review" by Agra Publications (2006, translated by Kostas Raptis) includes his articles "The River of Time" and "Arms and Rights: Rawls, Habermas, and Bobbio in a Time of War."