Name: A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir
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Author: Anderson, Benedict
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 (Kunming, China, August 26, 1936 – Malang, Indonesia, December 13, 2015) was an American historian and political scientist whose name is fundamental in studies on modern nationalism. He gained international renown with his influential work Imagined Communities, where he proposed that nations are not natural or eternal entities, but social constructions formed through the press, shared language, and a collective memory. His concept of "imagined community" revolutionized the way nations are understood, highlighting how millions of people can feel part of the same group despite never meeting.

Throughout his extensive academic career, Anderson specialized in Southeast Asia, focusing his approach on countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. He was distinguished by his interdisciplinary and critical perspective, which merged history, politics, sociology, and cultural studies to address collective identity and national construction. His legacy has been celebrated both in the Anglo-Saxon world and in Asia, inspiring new generations of researchers and fueling the debate on the nature and evolution of national identities.

Anderson's work and thought continue to be key in disciplines such as history, sociology, and political science. His innovative outlook and penetrating analysis remain relevant among academics, scholars, and readers interested in understanding the processes that underpin the formation of contemporary communities and nations.

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