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 Bensaïd at a conference in Barcelona in April 2008 |
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| Full name | Daniel Bensaïd |
| Born | 1946 (age 62–63) |
| School/tradition | Trotskyist |
Daniel Bensaïd (born 1946 in Toulouse) is philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.
Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Bensaïd is now a leading theorist of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. He is known for writing studies of Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx, and a recent analysis of French postmodernism.
Daniel Bensaïd is a Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education.
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Criticism and debate
Bensaïd and the Fourth International tradition have come under attack from sections of the far left for the strategy they have advanced in the social movements; in particular, for seeing reform and revolution as a false dichotomy, and proposing the formation of "broad parties". In one such critique, Luke Cooper, of the journal Fifth International, criticised Bensaïd for arguing that—in certain, specific circumstances—it maybe permissible to enter a capitalist government, and seek to use the existing state as an instrument of revolutionary transformation.[1] Bensaïd has also debated revolutionary strategy with other Fourth International members, and the Socialist Workers Party's Alex Callinicos.[2]
Bibliography
- with Henri Weber: Mai 1968: Une répétition générale (François Maspero, 1968)
- La revolution et le pouvoir (Penser, 1976)
- Walter Benjamin sentinelle messianique (Plon, 1990)
- La discordance des temps : essais sur les crises, les classes, l'histoire (Editions de la Passion 1995)
- Marx l'intempestif : Grandeurs et misres d'une aventure critique ( Fayard 1996); English translation: Marx for Our Times (Verso 2002)
- Le pari melancolique (Fayard 1997)
- Le sourire du spectre (Michalon 2000)
- Qui est le juge? (Fayard 1999)
- Contes et le gendes de la guerre ethique (Textuel 1999)
- Eloge de la resistance e l'air du temps (Textuel 1999)
- Une lente impatience. Stock - Un ordre d'idées 2004. ISBN 2-234-05659-4
- Les irreductibles. (Textuel 2001)
- Fragments Mécréants. Mythes Identitaires et République Imaginaire (2005)
- "In Memory of a Rebel." Telos 44, Summer 1980.
References
- ^ Daniel Bensaïd and the “Return of Strategy”
- ^ Hegemony and the United Front [1] The Return of Strategy [2]
External links
- All Daniel Bensaïd's articles (french language) in Editions La Brèche Numérique
- Daniel Bensaïd's articles in International Viewpoint
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