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Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of the Revolution to the Melancholic Wager
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 303
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Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager is the first systematic full-length study of Bensaïd’s renovation of Marxism. Bensaïd, a student leader during the May '68 revolt and founder of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, was an exemplar of a creative and open liberatory Marxism, leaving a vast oeuvre for a new generation of Marxists to explore. Much of Bensaïd’s writing remains untranslated into English, and Roso’s volume offers a comprehensive critical overview.
Darren Roso is a communist philosopher based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. His writings have appeared in Historical Materialism, Contretemps, Revuepériode, and Marxist Left Review. He was based in Paris during the writing of this book.
Foreword
Foreword: The Power of Imagination
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of Marxism
1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin
2 Revolution and Power
3 The Dark Years of Readjustment
4 History Has Two Faces
5 Marx from Beneath the Ruins
6 Ready to Roll the Dice?
7 The Return of the Social Question
8 Who Is the Judge?
9 Smile of the Frightful Hobgoblin
10 Althusser: Trapped in Stalin’s Glass Jar
11 Negri: The Dissolution of Politics into Violence
12 Badiou: A Distant Companion
13 Derrida: Fellow Marrano
14 Praising the Profane
15 Commodity Fetishism
Conclusion: Pointing Towards Spaces of Liberation
Appendix: Daniel Bensaïd’s Melancholic Wager Jury D’habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction)
Michael Löwy
References
Index
Foreword: The Power of Imagination
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of Marxism
Part 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin in the Early Years
1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin
2 Revolution and Power
3 The Dark Years of Readjustment
Part 2 New Inventions and Illuminations
4 History Has Two Faces
5 Marx from Beneath the Ruins
6 Ready to Roll the Dice?
Part 3 Open-ended Conjunctural Judgements
7 The Return of the Social Question
8 Who Is the Judge?
9 Smile of the Frightful Hobgoblin
Part 4 Bensaïd and His Contemporaries
10 Althusser: Trapped in Stalin’s Glass Jar
11 Negri: The Dissolution of Politics into Violence
12 Badiou: A Distant Companion
13 Derrida: Fellow Marrano
Part 5 Strategic Thinking to Break the Reproduction of Fetishism and Domination
14 Praising the Profane
15 Commodity Fetishism
Conclusion: Pointing Towards Spaces of Liberation
Appendix: Daniel Bensaïd’s Melancholic Wager Jury D’habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction)
Michael Löwy
References
Index
Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager will be of significant interest to academic libraries, graduate and post-graduate students, social change activists, and students of critical theory, Marxism and philosophy.