Lenin Reloaded (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii
Redaktion: Sebastian Budgen, Budgen

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Produktbeschreibung

Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confines of Europe, who put it into practice. They contend that a focus on Lenin is urgently needed now, when global capitalism appears to be the only game in town, the liberal-democratic system seems to have been settled on as the optimal political organization of society, and it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than a modest change in the mode of production. Lenin retooled Marx's thought for specific historical conditions in 1914, and Lenin Reloaded urges a reinvention of the revolutionary project for the present. Such a project would be Leninist in its commitment to action based on truth and its acceptance of the consequences that follow from action.These essays, some of which are appearing in English for the first time, bring Lenin face-to-face with the problems of today, including war, imperialism, the imperative to build an intelligentsia of wage earners, the need to embrace the achievements of bourgeois society and modernity, and the widespread failure of social democracy. Lenin Reloaded demonstrates that truth and partisanship are not mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Quite the opposite-in the present, truth can be articulated only from a thoroughly partisan position.Contributors. Kevin B. Anderson, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Daniel Bensaid, Sebastian Budgen, Alex Callinicos, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Stathis Kouvelakis, Georges Labica, Sylvain Lazarus, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lars T. Lih, Domenico Losurdo, Savas Michael-Matsas, Antonio Negri, Alan Shandro, Slavoj Zizek

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822389552
• Artikelnr.: 54815775

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Budgen is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism and a coeditor (with Chiara Bonfiglioli) of La planete altermondialiste. Stathis Kouvelakis teaches political theory at King’s College London. His books include Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx and Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain (coedited with J. Bidet). He is an editor of the French journal Contretemps. Slavoj iek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His many books include Theology and the Political: The New Debate (coedited with Creston Davis and John Milbank), Cogito and the Unconscious, and Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Repeating Lenin / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and
Slavoj Zizek 1
Part 1: Retrieving Lenin
1. One Divides Itself into Two / Alain Badiou 7
2. Leninism in the Twenty-first Century?: Lenin, Weber, and the Politics of
Responsibility / Alex Callinicos 18
3. Lenin in the Postmodern Age / Terry Eagleton 42
4. Lenin and Revisionism / Fredric Jameson 59
5. A Leninist Gesture Today: Against the Populist Temptation / Slavoj Zizek
74
Part 2: Lenin in Philosophy
6. Lenin and the Path of Dialectics / Savas Michael-Matsas 101
7. The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic in Philosophy and in
World Politics / Kevin B. Anderson 120
8. “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!” / Daniel Bensaid 148
9. Lenin as Reader of Hegel: Hypotheses for a Reading of Lenin’s Notebooks
on Hegel’s “The Science of Logic” / Stathis Kouvelakis 164
Part 3: War and Imperialism
10. The Philosophical Moment in Politics Determined by War: Lenin 1914-16 /
Etienne Balibar 207
11. From Imperialism to Globalization / Georges Labica 222
12. Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy / Domenico Losurdo 239
Part 4: Politics and its Subject
13. Lenin and the Part, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvian Lazarus 255
14. Lenin the Just, or Marxism Unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle 269
15. Lenin and the Great Awakening / Lars T. Lih 283
16. What to Do Today with What Is to Be Done?, or Rather: The Body of the
General Intellect / Antonio Negri 297
17. Lenin and Hegemony: The Soviets, the Working Class, and the Party in
the Revolution of 1905 / Alan Shandro 308
Contributors 333
Index 335