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Book SynopsisDaniel 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.
Table of ContentsForeword 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
