Fredy Perlman
Fredy Perlman (1934–1985) was an American author, translator, publisher, and activist. His best-known work, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, retells the historical rise of state domination through a poetic investigation of the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan. He also translated the first English version of The Society of the Spectacle, published in 1970.
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- Brno
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- Columbia UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of BelgradeUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Law
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1934
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Birth1985
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