{"product_id":"9781350614512","title":"Specters of Lenin Contemporary Hauntings of a Fractured Left","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpecters of Lenin\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eContemporary Hauntings of a Fractured Left\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDenis Bosseau\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor a broad section of the radical Left, it often seems as though any viable answers to the old question of \u003ci\u003ewhat is to be done \u003c\/i\u003ehave to be predicated on the exorcism of Leninism and the spectres it conjures up –  from the very question of political power and its conquest, to vanguardism and democratic centralism. But with the rise of far-right populism and the intensifying brutality of a complicit authoritarian-liberal order bent on crushing all that it cannot co-opt, can we still afford not to face such spectres?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an effort to untangle some of the key points of tension that have fragmented the radical Left over the past 30 years, \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Lenin \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the legacies of Leninist politics that still haunt our collective political imaginary today, looming, like specters, over many contemporary social movements and struggles and those who seek to interpret their emancipatory potential.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenis Bosseau thus asks us to confront such automatisms of thought, that still bring many of us to recoil at the very idea of Leninism ,and which threaten to reduce our political horizon as we confront the urgent possibility of rethinking what the political project of revolution could mean in the present global conditions of capitalist domination. Drawing on the works of both detractors and defenders of Lenin(ism), Bosseau proposes a political hauntology of the contemporary revolutionary Left, inciting constructive debate on our historical situation through the prism of a shared inheritance demanding to be engaged with anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDenis Bosseau\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar and teacher at the City Literary Institute in London (\u003ci\u003eCityLit\u003c\/i\u003e). He has held various teaching positions in Philosophy and Political theory at the University of Sussex, Birkbeck College (University of London) and the University of Brighton in the UK. He is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eCommunis Press\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e journal and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRousseau Today\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eCritical Theory Today\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350614512\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331330605196,"sku":"9781350614512","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350614512","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}