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OverviewThe European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty, what sort of structure has crystallised, and does the promise of ever closer union still obtain? Against the self-image of the bloc, Perry Anderson poses the historical record of its assembly. He traces the wider arc of European history, from First World War to Eurozone crisis, the hegemony of Versailles to that of Maastricht, and casts the work of the EU’s leading contemporary analysts – both independent critics and court philosophers – in older traditions of political thought. Are there likenesses to the age of Metternich, lessons in statecraft from that of Machiavelli? An excursus on the UK’s jarring departure from the Union considers the responses it has met with inside the country’s intelligentsia, from the contrite to the incandescent. How do Brussels and Westminster compare as constitutional forms? Differently put, which could be said to be worse? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Perry AndersonPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.364kg ISBN: 9781839764417ISBN 10: 1839764414 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 28 September 2021 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsOne of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures. -Jeet Heer, New Republic Perry Anderson's Ever Closer Union? provides an elegantly savage critique of the European Union. Many of the arguments and themes may be familiar-years of rowing over Brexit will do that to an audience-but few deliver the lines with the poise of Anderson. What ultimately emerges from the pages of Ever Closer Union? is the EU not as its defenders imagine it to be, but as it really is: an oligarchic institution, built over and against the peoples of Europe. -Tim Black, Spiked Anderson's latest book draws on his characteristic method of meticulous and staggering range of reference ... His style, with its combative strain, can never be accused of being 'dull, technical, infested with jargon'-faults he ascribes to much literature on the European Union. -Gordon Parsons, Morning Star One of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures. -Jeet Heer, New Republic Perry Anderson's Ever Closer Union? provides an elegantly savage critique of the European Union. Many of the arguments and themes may be familiar-years of rowing over Brexit will do that to an audience-but few deliver the lines with the poise of Anderson. What ultimately emerges from the pages of Ever Closer Union? is the EU not as its defenders imagine it to be, but as it really is: an oligarchic institution, built over and against the peoples of Europe. -Tim Black, Spiked Perry Anderson's Ever Closer Union? provides an elegantly savage critique of the European Union. Many of the arguments and themes may be familiar - years of rowing over Brexit will do that to an audience - but few deliver the lines with the poise of Anderson. What ultimately emerges from the pages of Ever Closer Union? is the EU not as its defenders imagine it to be, but as it really is: an oligarchic institution, built over and against the peoples of Europe. -- Tim Black * Spiked * Anderson's latest book draws on his characteristic method of meticulous and staggering range of reference...His style, with its combative strain, can never be accused of being 'dull, technical, infested with jargon' - faults he ascribes to much literature on the European Union. -- Gordon Parsons * Morning Star * Picking up where his previous study of the European Union, The New Old World (2009), ended, Ever Closer Union? is one of the most serious and intelligent challenges to the EU available. -- Hugo Drochon * Times Literary Supplement * A hugely ambitious and panoramic political book, tracking the rise and fall of the EU's principal actors and guiding ideas, and quietly but often lethally critiquing other writers who have attempted to make sense of the whole sprawling edifice * Guardian [for The New Old World] * Extraordinary originality and penetrating insight - sweeping, subtle, sophisticated, provocative -- Andrew Bacevich * Diplomatic History [for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers] * The Anglophone world's premier chronicler of Brazilian politics, Anderson's broad scope, high stature and wide reading habits have allowed him to write essays on Brazil that remain above the ruck, but below the ivory tower * American Interest [for Brazil Apart] * A magnificent achievement. It is a product of his ability, near-unique in today's world of ideas, to distil a country's history and politics into a few thousand words that are at once combative and informative * Business Standard, New Delhi [for The Indian Ideology] * Author InformationPerry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He is on the editorial board of New Left Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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