An Impatient Life - A Memoir (Paperback)

Daniel Bensaid; Foreword by Tariq Ali; Translated by David Fernbach

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A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaid was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France's leading Marxist public intellectual, much in demand on talk shows and in the press. A lyrical essayist and powerful public speaker, at his best expounding large ideas to crowds of students and workers, he was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and thrived at the heart of a resurgent far left in the 1960s, which nurtured many of the leading figures of today's French establishment. The path from the joyous explosion of May 1968, through the painful experience of defeat in Latin America and the world-shaking collapse of the USSR, to the neoliberal world of today, dominated as it is by global finance, is narrated in An Impatient Life with Bensaid's characteristic elegance of phrase and clarity of vision. His memoir relates a life of ideological and practical struggle, a never-resting endeavour to comprehend the workings of capitalism in the pursuit of revolution.

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Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	March 2015
Authors:	Daniel Bensaid
Foreword by:	Tariq Ali
Translators:	David Fernbach
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-78168-818-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	1-78168-818-4
Barcode:	9781781688182