Contesting the Global Order : The Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein (Suny series in New Political Science)

Williams, Gregory P.

State University of New York Press（2020/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 268 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438479651
• DDC分類 330.1

Full Description

Examines how events in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Contesting the Global Order explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Williams chronicles the evolution of intellectual visionaries Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, who despite altered circumstances for radical change, continued to advance creative interpretations of the social world. Wallerstein and Anderson, whose hopes were invested in a more egalitarian future, believed their writings would contribute to socialism, which they anticipated would be a postcapitalist future of relative social, economic, and political equality. However, by the 1980s dreams of socialism had faded and they had to face the reality that socialism was neither close nor inevitable. Their sensitivity to current events, Williams argues, takes on new significance in this century, when many scholars are grappling with the issue of change in a world of declining state power.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Radical Political Economy for an Age of Uncertainty

1. Cosmopolitan Beginnings

2. Ideational Lineages

3. The Year that Changed Everything

4. Ideas Need Institutions

Intermission I: Immanuel Wallerstein's New Pair of Glasses

5. There Is No Alternative

6. Shed a Tear for East European Communism?

Intermission II: Perry Anderson's Clear-Headed Radicalism

7. Do Not Believe What Great Powers Say

Conclusion: The Point Is to Interpret, and Then Change, the World

Notes
Bibliography
Index