Daniel Bensaïd

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Daniel Bensaïd (born 1946 in Toulouse) is philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.

Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Bensaïd is now a leading theorist of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. He is known for writing studies of Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx, and a recent analysis of French postmodernism.

Daniel Bensaïd is a Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education.

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  • with Henri Weber: Mai 1968: Une répétition générale (François Maspero, 1968)
  • La revolution et le pouvoir (Penser, 1976)
  • Walter Benjamin sentinelle messianique (Plon, 1990)
  • La discordance des temps : essais sur les crises, les classes, l'histoire (Editions de la Passion 1995)
  • Marx l'intempestif : Grandeurs et misres d'une aventure critique ( Fayard 1996)
  • Le pari melancolique (Fayard 1997)
  • Le sourire du spectre (Michalon 2000)
  • Qui est le juge? (Fayard 1999)
  • Contes et le gendes de la guerre ethique (Textuel 1999)
  • Eloge de la resistance e l'air du temps (Textuel 1999)
  • Une lente impatience. Stock - Un ordre d'idées 2004. ISBN 2-234-05659-4
  • Les irreductibles. (Textuel 2001)
  • Fragments Mécréants. Mythes Identitaires et République Imaginaire (2005)

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