On the Threshold
Tom Nairn, 23 March 1995
Northern Ireland: The Choice
by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden.
Penguin, 256 pp., £6.99, May 1994,0 14 023541 8 Show More
by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden.
Penguin, 256 pp., £6.99, May 1994,
“... from Ballymurphy. In his essay (in Zones of Engagement) on Fukuyama’s The End of History Perry Anderson has analysed the 20th-century genealogy of ‘this collective vision of a stalled, exhausted world, dominated by recursive mechanisms of bureaucracy and ubiquitous circuits of commodities, relieved only by the extravagances of a phantasmic imaginary ... ”