{"product_id":"a-life-beyond-boundaries-isbn-9781786630155","title":"A Life Beyond Boundaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA Life Beyond Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.“Describes with characteristic charm and literary grace the intellectual By the author of \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e trajectory of a greatly admired scholar of our times.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ramachandra Guha, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engaging  and winningly modest memoir … [full of] canny and pertinent  observations on modern academia: the prevalence of jargon and the lack  of language skills. Poignantly, he tells us how lucky he feels about his  achievements. We should feel the same.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anderson  is an enemy of the bubble, whether nation, school or language. He  returns again and again to an image in Thai and Indonesian cultures of a  frog who lives its entire life under half of a coconut shell … Reading  Anderson feels like emerging from a coconut shell.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Throughout  his memoir, Anderson’s writing is gentlemanly, kind, laced with jokes  and vignettes of his favourite interviews, like those he conducted with  two Indonesian brothers who exemplified the almost incestuous politics  in Jakarta – one was the head of army intelligence, the other a member  of the politburo of the Communist party of Indonesia.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A  neat and tidy book about [Anderson’s] unusual trajectory and  sensibility, infused with inside jokes, idiosyncratic asides, and sly  humor. It is also a tart overview of academic life. But mostly the  memoir is a primer for cosmopolitanism and an argument for traversing  geographical, historical, linguistic, and disciplinary borders.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Scott Sherman, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Benedict  Anderson transformed the study of nationalism … and was renowned not  only for his theoretical contributions but also for his detailed  examinations of language and power in Indonesia, Thailand and the  Philippines.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anderson,  who died late last year, had an intuitive sympathy for nationalism’s  anti-imperial origins. This was underpinned by his view of history,  which was shaped by a rare and unfamiliar perspective. At the time of \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities’\u003c\/i\u003e publication, he was a political scientist at the centre of the small  community of westerners working on Southeast Asia. Not only his training  but also his family background had equipped him, in ways his  posthumously published memoir\u003ci\u003e A Life Beyond Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear, to understand nationalism’s extraordinary insurgent appeal.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The  global need for transnational solidarity is a project toward which  Anderson wishes to bring continued attention. Therein … lies the  transformative quality of the book … Anderson’s reflections offer tools  for challenging the simplified outlook of globalization and, in his own  words, recognizing the ‘emancipatory possibilities of both nationalism  and internationalism.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Trevor Jackson, \u003ci\u003eSocialism and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A charming, insightful and short memoir that also brings his ideas and arguments up to the present day.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Times Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everything  Anderson wrote was boldly original, challenging assumptions by  uncovering a neglected or suppressed voice. He was never content to tell  an audience what they wanted to hear.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenedict Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (1936–2015) was Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He was Editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eIndonesia\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eJava in a Time of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305324138725,"sku":"NP9781786630155","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781786630155.jpg?v=1767720595","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-life-beyond-boundaries-isbn-9781786630155","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}