Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of the Revolution to the Melancholic Wager

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-31494-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 303, 822 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1197 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roso, Darren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.