1. Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson was born on 11 September 1938 and is a British intellectual, political philosopher, historian and essayist.
13 Facts About Perry Anderson
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Perry Anderson is perhaps best known as the moving force behind the New Left Review.
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Perry Anderson is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Perry Anderson is the brother of political scientist Benedict Anderson.
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Perry Anderson's father, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson, known as Seamas, an official with the Chinese Maritime Customs, was born into an Anglo-Irish family, the younger son of Brigadier-General Sir Francis Anderson, of Ballydavid, County Waterford.
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Perry Anderson was descended from the Anderson family of Ardbrake, Bothriphnie, Scotland, who had settled in Ireland in the early 18th century.
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Perry Anderson's father had previously been married to the novelist Stella Benson, and it was after her death in 1933 that he married again.
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Perry Anderson was educated at Eton and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took his first degree.
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Early in his life, Perry Anderson made a brief foray into rock criticism, writing under the pseudonym Richard Merton.
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In 1962 Perry Anderson became editor of the New Left Review, a position he held for twenty years.
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Perry Anderson published two major volumes of analytical history in 1974: Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism focuses on the creation and endurance of feudal social formations, while Lineages of the Absolutist State examines monarchical absolutism.
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Perry Anderson returned as editor at NLR in 2000 for three more years, and after his retirement continued to serve on the journal's editorial committee.
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Perry Anderson delivered two responses to Thompson's polemics, first in an essay in New Left Review called "Socialism and Pseudo-Empiricism", and then in a more conciliatory yet ambitious overview, Arguments within English Marxism.