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Miguel Abensour. 1939 – 2017. Radical Left ‘Insurgent Democracy”. https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/miguel-abensour-1939-2017-radical-left-insurgent-democracy/ "Abensour was influenced by Castoriadis and the review Socialisme ou Barbarie (1949 – 1967) During the sixties he was as founder of Utopie, whose other best known figure was Jean Baudrillard. The title of the journal could stand for a life-long interest in utopian thought, from Thomas More, William Morris, Walter Benjamin the anthropologist Pierre Clastres who speculated on societies without states, to Ernst Bloch and the Frankfurt School. He admired Hannah Arendt, her critique of totalitarianism, the destruction of pluralism, and her writing on the “hidden treasure” of the direct democracy of the workers’ councils. Unlike those, who in the wake of François Furet’s Penser la Révolution française (1978) saw in all radical revolutions the germs of totalitarian tyranny, he continued to defend a Marxist influenced “insurgent democracy”. <https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/miguel-abensour-1939-2017-radical-left-insurgent-democracy/> Miguel Abensour. 1939 – 2017. Radical Left ‘Insurgent Democracy”.<https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/miguel-abensour-1939-2017-radical-left-insurgent-democracy/> tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com Miguel Abensour. 1939 – 2017. The radical left-wing political philosopher Miguel Abensour passed away on April the 22nd. From a Jewish family, and a childhood spent hidden from the Vichy regime in … Andrew Coates _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
