Perry Anderson''s New Left Thought

This dissertation’s object of study is Perry Anderson, he is not only one of the most important character of English New Left, but also an excellent scholar of history. Owning to there is more room for Taiwanese Marxism study, as well as many characters, events and theories derived from it, and especially for English New Left Movement. Therefore this dissertation wants to be one good turn deserves another and achieve a stimulating effect, introduce Anderson’s theory and research method into Taiwanese academia, and provide another horizon of Left research. s there is not many articles and monographs about Anderson, whatever Chinese or English, principally focus on Paul Blackledge’s Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (2004), Gregory Elliott’s Perry Anderson: The Merciless Laboratory of History (1998), and Lin Chun’s The British New Left (1993), these three monographs constitute the basic framework of this dissertation, and take Anderson’s articles and books for assistant. he main purpose of this dissertation is to try to get the core argument from Anderson’s aplenty workings, and it is ’if you want to create the future, you must resolve the problems nowadays, for that, you need to understand the past. ’