• Dick Howard, author of The Specter of Democracy, has a chapter titled, “In Search of a New Left” in a new book called Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion and Utopia. • Paresh Chattopadhyay has a review of a book titled The Seductions of Karl Marx by Murzban Jal in the April 30-May 6 2011 […]
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As the stacks of unread books linger, titles appear on my list of new and forthcoming books I hope to be able to write something about in 2011: · Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution (University of California Press) Available April 2011, but the text of the first chapter (“These Are the Times to Grow Our […]
The French philosopher and political theorist Claude Lefort has passed away at the age of 86. Lefort was a co-thinker of Cornelius Castoriadis when the two worked together on the journal Socialisme or Barbarie (Lefort’s pseudonym was Montal). He last contributed to the journal in 1956 and split with Henri Simon to form a group […]
Criticism &c. 