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Daniel Bensaïd, Melancholic Strategist
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Bensaid as mentioned in this paper was a Marxist philosopher and author of an extensive body of works about political strategy, which combine a diversity of singular influences, such as Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Che Guevara on the one hand, and Benjamin, Peguy and Blanqui on the other.Abstract:
Daniel Bensaid was a Marxist philosopher and author of an extensive body of works about political strategy. His writings combine a diversity of singular influences, such as Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Che Guevara on the one hand, and Benjamin, Peguy and Blanqui on the other. In his work, religious heresies, Marranos, moles and emblematic figures of the resistance to oppression such as Joan of Arc meet with the classic figures of Marxism. The non-linear concept of time and messianic reason support a strategic reading of history and an understanding of political commitment, following Goldmann’s interpretation of Pascal’s Wager as a wager of uncertain outcome.read more
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Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
TL;DR: Brennan as mentioned in this paper argues that poststructuralism's infinitely interchangeable metaphors of dispersal: decentered subjects, nomadism, ambivalence, the supplement, rhizomatic identity, and the constructed self can be traced back to the rise of a neoliberalism which commoditized otherness and stripped away the buffers of the welfare state.
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Sliding Scale of Spaces and Dilemmas of Internationalism
TL;DR: The concept used by Bensaid of "sliding scale of spaces" seems particularly adequate to deal with the changing and complex geographies of capitalist globalization as mentioned in this paper, and managing the sliding scale of space is then a key strategic element of contemporary internationalism.
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Insurgent Universality: an alternative legacy of modernity: by Massimiliano Tomba, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, i-xii+286 pp., US 36.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9780190883089
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend the agency of dispossessed, exploited and repressed social classes in social revolts that stand out as epochal markers in world history since the late eighteenth cent...
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Resurrection of the Dead, Exaltation of the New Struggles: Marxism, Class Conflict, and Social Movement
Wagering against TINA: Nothing to lose but our…
TL;DR: In a context dominated by TINA, the notion of the wager, as conceived by Pascal and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, constitutes a potentially crucial means of re-igniting our capacities for taking action toward social and cognitive justice as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud in English as mentioned in this paper is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works in English, containing twenty-four volumes.
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The Human Condition
TL;DR: The Human Condition as mentioned in this paper is a classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely, it contains Margaret Canovan's 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.
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Mourning and Melancholia
TL;DR: Freud, S. as discussed by the authors, The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916): On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works, 237-258 Mourning and Melancholia, 237.
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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.