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Archive of In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

    Razmig Keucheyan
    29 September 2020
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    Post War Critical Theory: A Theoretical Glaciation

    As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction are merciless. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches.

    Perry Anderson
    01 June 2017
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    Arguments Within English Marxism: Utopias

    Perry Anderson probes Edward Thompson's work on William Morris and his defense of utopianism.  

    Perry Anderson
    31 May 2017
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    Thematic Innovations of Western Marxism

    This text is excerpted from Considerations on Western Marxism, written in 1974 as the introduction to a reader on Western Marxism whose publication was ultimately delayed before appearing as a standalone volume in 1976.

    Perry Anderson
    30 May 2017
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    The Timing of Postmodernity

    The capture of the postmodern by Jameson has set the terms of subsequent debate. It is no surprise that the most significant interventions since his entry into the field have likewise been Marxist in origin. The three leading contributions can be read as attempts to supplement or correct, each in its own way, Jameson's original account. Alex Callinicos’s Against Postmodernism (1989) advances a closer analysis of the political background to the postmodern. David Harvey's Condition of Postmodernity (1990) offers a much fuller theory of its economic presuppositions. Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) tackles the impact of its ideological diffusion. All these works pose problems of demarcation. How is the postmodern to be best periodized?

    Tasos Tsakiroglou
    10 April 2017
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    The Common Thread of Pessimism: Razmig Keucheyan on contemporary critical theory

    06 July 2016
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    “So it must be for ever...”—Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy and its Thinkers in the LRB

    In the most recent issue of the London Review of Books, Thomas Meaney reviews Perry Anderson's recently published analysis of the ways in which the creation of the US state and its imperial ambitions have interacted, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers. Read an extract here.

    Enzo Traverso
    06 January 2016
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    Enzo Traverso: The Memory of the Twentieth Century Left

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