Listening to Perry Anderson in the age of the screenshot. A lesson to anyone who uses their middle finger when counting. This is a new hazard:pic.twitter.com/ylVQHpOmpd
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Thanks! I read the intro paragraphs and I’ll read the rest tonight. I already appreciate that you admit his erudition gives the book this realpolitik tone, but that fact isn’t reflexively put in contrast with idealism like it would be in an intro to IR course.
He’s got that “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” disposition down. Searingly smart about the contingent “facts” of the world, but still operates like a true materialist in that these facts ARE contingent, despite their severe ideological/structural entrenchment
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