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Record Nr.

UNINA9910311935603321

Titolo

Lenin reloaded : toward a politics of truth / / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-283-02302-4

9786613023025

0-8223-8955-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

SIC ; ; 7

Altri autori (Persone)

BudgenSebastian

KouvelakisEustache <1965->

ZizekSlavoj

Disciplina

320.53/22

320.5322

Soggetti

Socialism

Communism

Marxian economics

Capitalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: repeating Lenin / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek -- Retrieving Lenin -- One divides itself into two / Alain Badiou -- Leninism in the twenty-first century? : Lenin, Weber, and the politics of responsibility / Alex Callinicos -- Lenin in the postmodern age / Terry Eagleton -- Lenin and revisionism / Fredric Jameson -- A Leninist gesture today: against the populist temptation / Slavoj Zizek -- Lenin in philosophy -- Lenin and the path of dialectics / Savas Michael-Matsas -- The rediscovery and persistence of the dialectic in philosophy and in world politics / Kevin B. Anderson -- "Leaps! leaps! leaps!" / Daniel Bensaid -- Lenin as reader of Hegel: hypotheses for a reading of Lenin's notebooks on Hegel's The science of logic / Stathis Kouvelakis -- War and imperialism -- The philosophical moment in politics determined by war: Lenin 1914-16 / Etienne Balibar -- From imperialism to globalization / Georges Labica -- Lenin and the Herrenvolk democracy / Domenico Losurdo -- Politics



and its subject -- Lenin and the Party, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvain Lazarus -- Lenin the just, or Marxism unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- Lenin and the great awakening / Lars T. Lih -- What to do today with What Is To Be Done?, or Rather: the body of the general intellect / Antonio Negri -- Lenin and hegemony: the Soviets, the working class, and the Party in the Revolution of 1905 / Alan Shandro.

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when few people seriously consider alternatives to global capitalism, this work argues that Lenin demonstrates the inseparability of truth and partisanship (the taking of sides), an argument liberal leftists must hear now.