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

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.

• ForewordForeword: The Power of ImaginationAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of MarxismPart 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin in the Early Years1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin2 Revolution and Power3 The Dark Years of ReadjustmentPart 2 New Inventions and Illuminations4 History Has Two Faces5 Marx from Beneath the Ruins6 Ready to Roll the Dice?Part 3 Open-ended Conjunctural Judgements7 The Return of the Social Question8 Who Is the Judge?9 Smile of the Frightful HobgoblinPart 4 Bensaïd and His Contemporaries10 Althusser: Trapped in Stalin’s Glass Jar11 Negri: The Dissolution of Politics into Violence12 Badiou: A Distant Companion13 Derrida: Fellow MarranoPart 5 Strategic Thinking to Break the Reproduction of Fetishism and Domination14 Praising the Profane15 Commodity FetishismConclusion: Pointing Towards Spaces of LiberationAppendix: Daniel Bensaïd’s Melancholic Wager Jury D’habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction)Michael LöwyReferencesIndex