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010			_a 2015300987
020			_a9781781687673 paperback
020			_a1781687676 paperback
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn870896648
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
042			_alccopycat
082	0	4	_a320.532 _bBOS/AC
100	1		_aBosteels, Bruno
245	1	4	_aACTUALITY OF COMMUNISM _cBruno Bosteels.
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bVerso _c2041/01/01
300			_g295
500			_aReprint. Previously published in 2011.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe ontological turn -- Politics, infrapolitics, and the impolitical -- Leftism and its discontents -- In search of the act -- The actuality of communism.
650		0	_aCommunism.
650		0	_aPolitical science
942			_cLEN
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_xPhilosophy.
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