The idea of communism / edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek
- Bib ID:
- 5154651
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Verso, 2010
- x, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781844674558
- 184467455X
- 9781844674596
- 1844674592
- Summary:
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Responding to Alain Badiou's "communist hypothesis", the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persistent notion that, in a truly emancipated society, all things should be owned in common. This volume brings together their discussions on the philosophical and political import of the communist idea, highlighting both its continuing significance and the need to reconfigure the concept within a world marked by havoc and crisis.
- Full contents:
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- The idea of communism / Alain Badiou
- To present oneself to the present. The communist hypothesis : a possible hypothesis for philosophy, an impossible name for politics? / Judith Balso
- The leftist hypothesis : communism in the age of terror / Bruno Bosteels
- The second time as farce...historical pragmatics and the untimely present / Susan Buck-Morss
- Adikia : on communism and rights / Costas Douzinas
- Communism : Lear or Gonzalo? / Terry Eagleton
- 'Communism of the intellect, communism of the will' / Peter Hallward
- The common in communism / Michael Hardt
- Communism, the word / Jean-Luc Nancy
- Communism : some thoughts on the concept and practice /Antonio Negri
- Communists without communism? / Jacques Rancière
- Did the cultural revolution end communism? Eight remarks on philosophy and politics today / Alessandro Russo
- The politics of abstraction : communism and philosophy / Alberto Toscano
- Weak communism? / Gianni Vattimo
- How to begin from the beginning / Slavoj Žižek.
- Notes:
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- Conference proceedings.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Communism -- Congresses
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- Copyright:
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