TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bosteels,Bruno
TI  - ACTUALITY OF COMMUNISM 
SN  - 9781781687673 paperback
U1  - 320.532 
PY  - 2041////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Communism
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -