Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 by Lenin, V. I.
Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 by Lenin, V. I.

Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK,...
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Author: V. I. Lenin
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Language: English
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Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 by Lenin, V. I.

Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

$110.29
Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 by Lenin, V. I.

Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

$110.29
Author: V. I. Lenin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century?

Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. Everything is here, from Lenin-the-ingenious-revolutionary-strategist to Lenin-of-the-enacted-utopia. To use Kierkegaard's phrase, what we can glimpse in these writings is Lenin-in-becoming: not yet Lenin-the-Soviet-institution, but Lenin thrown into an open, contingent situation.

In Revolution at the Gates, Slavoj Žižek locates the 1917 writings in their historical context, while his afterword tackles the key question of whether Lenin can be reinvented in our era of "cultural capitalism." Žižek is convinced that, whatever the discussion--the forthcoming crisis of capitalism, the possibility of a redemptive violence, the falsity of liberal tolerance--Lenin's time has come again.

Author: V. I. Lenin
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/01/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781844677146

About the Author
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
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