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

Foreword

Foreword: The Power of Imagination

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of Marxism



Part 1 Bensaid Encounters Lenin in the Early Years



1 Bensaid 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 Bensaid 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 Bensaid's Melancholic Wager Jury D'habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction)

?Michael Loewy

References

Index

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• Filosofia social e política
• Marxismo e Comunismo
• Sociologia e antropologia

Non-dogmatic Marxism; French philosophy; Temporality; Strategy; Bensaid; Althusser; Lenin; Crisis of Marxism; Messianism; Walter Benjamin; Concept of history; Materialism; Trotskyism; Critical theory