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ACTUALITY OF COMMUNISM Bruno Bosteels.

By: Language: English Publication details: London Verso 2041/01/01Edition: 1Description: 295ISBN:
  • 9781781687673 paperback
  • 1781687676 paperback
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.532 BOS/AC
Contents:
The ontological turn -- Politics, infrapolitics, and the impolitical -- Leftism and its discontents -- In search of the act -- The actuality of communism.
Summary: "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"--
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Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction 320.532 BOS/AC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available E191898

Reprint. Previously published in 2011.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--

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