Marx for Our Times by Daniel Bensaïd

Marx for Our Times by Daniel Bensaïd

Without denying the contradictory character of Marx's thought, Daniel Bensaïd sets out to demonstrate that it was not a philosophy of the end of history, an empirical sociology of classes, or a positive science of economics positing an inexorable progress towards an ineluctable communism. Instead, Marx's 'critique of political economy' encompassed three great critiques of the scientific and political canons of its age-of historical reason, sociological rationality and scientific positivism-which make the thinker from the nineteenth century fully relevant to the twenty-first century of global capitalism. Indeed, we find here a 'post-postmodern Marx' able to inhabit a contemporary world replete with contingency, emergency and contradictory temporalities. Published in France on the eve of the strikes of 1995 that signalled a profound revolt against la pensee unique, Marx for Our Times is an invitation to rediscover our foremost contemporary, Karl Marx.

Bensaïd furnishes us with a new reading of Marx which both criticizes and surpasses the debates and problematics of the pastA Marxist reading of Marx, in the sense of the eleventh thesis on Feuerbach: interpreting the world in order to transform it ... A reading which is neither apologetic nor conservative. * Le Quinzaine littéraire *
The result of a long process of research, this book offers us an analysis of the thought of Marx and of its relevance which should be considered as a new landmark, and which opens up new perspectives and polemics which will no dolubt continue to live on for some time. * Le Monde *

DANIEL BENSAÏD (1946-2010) was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and a leader for many years of the Fourth International. His many books include Walter Benjamin and Marx for Our Times. TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

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Titel	Marx for Our Times
Autor	Daniel Bensaïd
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Verso Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-10-17
Seitenanzahl	410
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