Perlman was born August 20, 1934, to Henry and Martha Perlman in Brno, Czechoslovakia. His family immigrated to the United States when he was young. Perlman received a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from University of Belgrade. He married Lorraine Nybakken in January 1958.[1]
His best-known work,[2] Against His-Story, Against Leviathan (1983) rewrites the history of humanity as a struggle of free people ("zeks") resisting the sovereign nation-state (Leviathan).[3] The book influenced ecophilosopher John Zerzan.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Deaths: Fredy Perlman". Iowa City Press-Citizen. July 29, 1985. p. 3.
- ^ Purkis, Jonathan; Bowen, James, eds. (2005). Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-7190-6694-8.
- ^ Marcus, Daniel (April 2020). "Information War". Artforum. Vol. 58, no. 8. ISSN 0004-3532.
- ^ Purkis, Jonathan (2004). "Anarchy Unbound: A Tribute to John Moore". In Moore, John; Sunshine, Spencer (eds.). I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite! Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition. New York: Autonomedia. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-57027-121-2. OCLC 249155584.
Further reading
edit- Depelchin, Jacques (1986). "For History, but against His-Story". African Economic History (15): 173–182. doi:10.2307/3601544. ISSN 0145-2258. JSTOR 3601544.
- Moore, John (1997). "Public Secret: Fredy Perlman and the Literature of Subversion". In Purkis, Jon; Bowen, James (eds.). Twenty-First Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas for the New Millennium. Cassell. pp. 117–133. ISBN 0-304-33742-0.
- Perlman, Lorraine (1989). Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years. Detroit: Black & Red. OCLC 21561128.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=s_oqDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT253