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Daniel Bensaïd has the merit of having introduced a new concept into the Marxist lexicon: bifurcation. He has, so to speak, sketched the broad outlines of what one might call a Marxism of bifurcation.
Ten years after his death, the thought of Daniel Bensaïd remains more alive than ever: We read (...)
All thinkers have their father-thinkers; none more so than Daniel Bensaïd. The figures of Charles Péguy, Walter Benjamin and Louis Auguste Blanqui recur throughout his work. In this article, Émile Carmes studies Bensaïd’s deep engagement over the years with the work of Blanqui.
Blanquis, barricades (...)
An Impatient Life. By Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach. Foreword by Tariq Ali. Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages, $19.95 paperback.
AN IMPATIENT LIFE is part of the burst of literary production by French Marxist writer and activist Daniel Bensaïd in the years preceding his death (...)
Daniel Bensaïd An Impatient Life: A Memoir, Verso: London, 2013; 358 pp: 139781781681084, £25 Reviewed by John McIlroy, Middlesex University, UK for Capital and Class.
Christophe Nick begins his account of the French far left with a half-truth: ‘you don’t become a Trotskyist by accident’ (2002: (...)
Daniel Bensaïd, An impatient life: a memoir (translated by David Fernbach, introduced by Tariq Ali) Verso 2013, pp384, £24.99 (£11.77 paperback, £9.69 Kindle).
Last week it was reported that British gross domestic product had finally recovered to the level attained in 2008 before the financial (...)
Review of An Impatient Life: A Memoir. By Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach • Foreword by Tariq Ali. Verso Books, 2014 · 336 pages · $34.95
Let us start, like Dante, in the middle. At age twenty-two, Daniel Bensaïd (1946–2010), a French-Algerian-Jewish philosophy student, vaulted eagerly (...)
Review: Daniel Bensaïd. An Impatient Life, A Memoir. London: Verso, 2013. 358 pages.
Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) was one of the most respected theorists to emerge from the 1960s radicals of Western Europe. Always inclined to think “outside the box,” waving aside venerable dogmas and (...)
Review : Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life : A Memoir, translated by David Fernbach, with an introduction by Tariq Ali, Verso Books, 2014. 336 pp.
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There are several problems with the use of the term, ‘the sixties generation’. To begin with, it tends to play into the dubious (...)
Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life: A Memoir, published by Verso Books.
“When great hopes have lead in their wings,” writes the French revolutionary Daniel Bensaïd, “little ones spring up like mushrooms on the ground, in everyday resistance and miniscule conspiracies” (6). Bensaïd died in January (...)
Jane Shallice reviews An Impatient Life: A Memoir (Verso, 2013) by Daniel Bensaïd and considers what the Left can learn from these beautiful memoirs
Why should you read this book? Written by a French Trotskyist, who died in 2010, and of whom few have heard and even fewer knew? A philosopher (...)
Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life, trans. David Fernbach (Verso, 2013).
This absorbing, affecting memoir is a beautiful testament to a richly productive and dignified life. Daniel Bensaïd spent over forty years as a partisan of the revolutionary left in France, writing, campaigning, organising (...)
Daniel Bensaïd. MAY 68 40th anniversary. LCR Meeting in Paris. Photothèque Rouge/JMB
It is two years since Daniel Bensaïd left us. [[16200] To mark the occasion, the Fourth International secretariat organized a seminar on his thought and action. This was not a big public initiative but three days (...)
This article was written as a contribution to the seminar on Daniel Bensaid commemorating the second anniversary of his death .
“Indignation is a beginning! A way of rising up and getting going. First you feel indignant and rebel, then you see. You feel passionately indignant, even before you (...)
“It is said that one should live with one’s times. These times are dying. Are we then to rot and disappear along with them?”
“But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth”.
Time is currently extracting a heavy blood tribute from the thinkers of (...)
Dheisha Refugee Camp, 01/24/2010
Dear Comrades
We would like to share our condolences and deep sadness since the respected leader Daniel Bensaïd passed away. It was a very big loss, not only for his followers, but also for all the people who believed in his approach to reach common goals. (...)
Thousands of people gathered at La Mutualité in Paris on Sunday, January 24, 2010 to render homage to Daniel Bensaïd. Hosted by Fred Borras and Myriam Martin, both from the leadership of the NPA and from Toulouse, like Daniel, this was an emotional and militant act of remembrance to his memory. (...)
Pierre, my deepest condolence for Daniel Bensaid.
We are also sad about his passing.
Yen (Philippines) Korea
As we commemorate the passing of Daniel Bensaid, who spent his whole life for workers, the people and revolution – To Bensaid, a comrade who devoted himself to awakening workers (...)
The French radical philosopher and political leader, Daniel Bensaïd, died Tuesday morning after fighting a painful cancer for several months at the end of close to 15 years of living with AIDS.
One of the key figures of the French student revolt of 1968, Bensaïd was a prominent founding member (...)
Britain
London meeting to celebrate Daniel Bensaïd’s life and work
Activist-academics Gilbert Achcar, Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos are among the speakers invited to address the memorial meeting for Daniel Bensaïd. The gathering on Tuesday 9 February will celebrate the life of (...)
On Tuesday January 12, 2010 our friend Daniel Bensaid, “Bensa” died. Those familiar with Daniel knew he was incurably ill, and had regretfully expected for some weeks news which, though we knew it to be inevitable, we always fought to believe would not come.
In Daniel we have lost one of the (...)
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