Perry Anderson
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Oct 28, 2026
DavidHOST
I really need to look this up because this is good.
DavidHOST
Perry Anderson.
DavidHOST
The ideology of Swiss progression design.
DavidHOST
Jesus.
DavidHOST
This is good stuff.
DavidHOST
Did I get that? Perry Anderson.
DavidHOST
Nice.
DavidHOST
Nice.
David A. HughesGUEST
I also mentioned in my talk, famous historians like Charles and Mary Beard, very influential in the first half of the 20th century, and then just edged out again.
David A. HughesGUEST
Or you can think about I mean, there was a time back in the 1970s, 1980s, Where there were some quite famous historians, Perry Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm, E.P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Louis Althusser, David Harvey, a bit later, Emanuel Wallerstein, people like this.
David A. HughesGUEST
You wouldn't necessarily call them Marxists, but they weren't afraid to talk about class in their work and they were widely read and cited.
David A. HughesGUEST
But again, all of that has kind of fallen away now.
Coll McCailGUEST
There's a variety of different reasons that people have used to explain why Britain doesn't follow the trajectory of the European continent in terms of mobilisation.
Coll McCailGUEST
Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn used to say that it was about the fact that Britain had its revolution first in the sense that the English Civil War came before the French and American revolutions and that meant that our constitution was embedded far earlier and therefore is more enduring and lasting and that is why we have what would be perceived as a more orderly society to that of Europe but I think that's British exceptionalism and So in this case, I think like we should remember that we have had summers of discontent, right? It's just not on our terms or the terms that I would like to see protests take place, right? Just this summer, we saw scores of demonstrators out in outlying schemes across the city, right? But they were protesting immigration rather than the cost of living, certainly explicitly.
Coll McCailGUEST
So it's not like we haven't seen spontaneous demonstrations of discontent in Britain, very violent ones, particularly in the case of anti-immigration riots attempting to burn down hotels with migrants inside them, for example, in recent years.
Coll McCailGUEST
So these issues are our issues too.
Thomas JonesHOST
Reviewing the antinomies of realism in the LRB in 2014, Michael Wood observed that Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think, but almost no one does.
Thomas JonesHOST
As Perry Anderson has written, Jameson's account of postmodernism develops for the first time a theory of the cultural logic of capital that simultaneously offers a portrait of the transformations of this social form as a whole.
Thomas JonesHOST
Here, in the passage from the sectoral to the general, the vocation of Western Marxism has reached its most complete consummation." Praising the spacious rhythms of his complex yet supple syntax and sudden bursts of metaphoric intensity, Anderson called Jameson a great writer.
Thomas JonesHOST
He was also, as Toral Moy has written recently in the LRB, a great reader.
Natasha LennardGUEST
Even in the book itself, I note is not a particular popular choice for most leftist thought.
Natasha LennardGUEST
Particularly Marxists, including Perry Anderson, have really, like, decried Wittgensteinian philosophy as counter-revolutionary, leaving the world as it is found, um, offering us nothing, uh, as leftist thinkers and, and activists and organizers.
Natasha LennardGUEST
And I'm not saying that I know better than Perry Anderson [laughs], uh, at all, but I've always found Wittgenstein's work insofar as it draws our attention to the concepts that we use, how they circulate, how our language games hold certain frameworks stable or open to shift intellectually useful and, and very malleable.
Natasha LennardGUEST
So Wittgenstein himself, you're not gonna get any sort of inspirational political program at all, and it's not strange that he's also being claimed by conservatives.
Natasha LennardGUEST
But I follow in a legacy of people like Stanley Cavell, and more recently people like Rupert Read and my colleague at The New School, Alice Crary, who I think are very convincing in pointing to liberatory reads of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language and making us pay attention to what we do when we do things with words and the kind of, um, mystifying and, uh, obscuring effects that can have.
Natasha LeonardGUEST
Wittgenstein is very much my jumping off point for this book.
Natasha LeonardGUEST
Even in the book itself, I note, is not a particular popular choice for most leftist thought, particularly Marxists, including Perry Anderson, have really like decried Wittgensteinian philosophy as counter-revolutionary, leaving the world as it is found, offering us nothing as leftist thinkers and activists and organisers.
Natasha LeonardGUEST
And I'm not saying that I know better than Perry Anderson at all, but I've always found Wittgenstein's work insofar as it draws our attention to the concepts that we use, how they circulate, how our language games hold certain frameworks stable or open to shift.
Natasha LeonardGUEST
intellectually useful and very malleable.
Natasha LeonardGUEST
So Wittgenstein himself, you're not going to get any sort of inspirational political program at all.
Andrea RuggeriGUEST
It...
Andrea RuggeriGUEST
We can put it also in a different way in the sense that, and this is what Perry Anderson used to say, that actually nationalism and internationalism have a dialectic, uh, movements, a pendular movements.
Andrea RuggeriGUEST
So you cannot think about Yalta without a wave of nationalism.
Andrea RuggeriGUEST
You know, the raise of fascism and Nazism, uh, and after that experience, the- the- the enormous, uh- uh, architecture, there was the United Nation, but was also Bretton Woods.