Name: A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir
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Author: Benedict Anderson
ISBN: 9781786630155

portada A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir

Type

Physical Book

Author

Benedict Anderson

Publisher

Verso

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781786630155

Synopsis "A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir"

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization. In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism. Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.

Benedict Anderson

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Benedict Anderson (1936-2015), quien fuera profesor emérito de Estudios internacionales de la Cornell University, fue un reputado politólogo, perspicaz analista del nacionalismo moderno y de la naturaleza de los imperios multiétnicos. Ensayista de prestigio internacional, entre sus numerosas publicaciones destacan The Spectre of Comparisons (1998), Language and Power (1990) y, sobre todo, el ya clásico Comunidades imaginadas. Reflexiones sobre el origen y la difusión del nacionalismo (1993).

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