A Zone of Engagement

by Perry Anderson

Book Overview

The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the historians of antiquity and of revolution, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and Isaac Deutscher; the philosophers of liberalism, Norberto Bobbio and Isaiah Berlin; the sociologists of power, Michael Mann and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860915956
• ISBN13: 9780860915959
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"