Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Bosteels, Bruno

ACTUALITY OF COMMUNISM Bruno Bosteels. - 1 - London Verso 2041/01/01 - 295

Reprint. Previously published in 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ontological turn -- Politics, infrapolitics, and the impolitical -- Leftism and its discontents -- In search of the act -- The actuality of communism.

"Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek, who are spearheading the revival of interest in communism. Bosteels examines this resurgence of communist thought through the prism of "speculative leftism" -- an incapacity to move beyond lofty abstractions and thoroughly rethink the categories of masses, classes and state. Debating those questions with writers including Roberto Esposito and Alberto Moreiras, Bosteels also provides a vital account of the work of the Bolivian Vice President and thinker Álvaro García Linera"--

ISBN: 9781781687673 paperback 1781687676 paperback

Source: Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra

LCCN: 2015300987

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Communism.
Political science--Philosophy.

Dewey Class. No.: 320.532 / BOS/AC