{"product_id":"an-impatient-life-daniel-bensaid-9781781688182","title":"An Impatient Life: A Memoir","description":"A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensa d was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France's leading Marxist public intellectual, much in demand on talk shows and in the press. A lyrical essayist and powerful public speaker, at his best expounding large ideas to crowds of students and workers, he was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and thrived at the heart of a resurgent far left in the 1960s, which nurtured many of the leading figures of today's French establishment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The path from the joyous explosion of May 1968, through the painful experience of defeat in Latin America and the world-shaking collapse of the USSR, to the neoliberal world of today, dominated as it is by global finance, is narrated in \u003ci\u003eAn Impatient Life\u003c\/i\u003e with Bensa d's characteristic elegance of phrase and clarity of vision. His memoir relates a life of ideological and practical struggle, a never-resting endeavour to comprehend the workings of capitalism in the pursuit of revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Bensaid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781688184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781688182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Daniel Bensaid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46199133896959,"sku":"9781781688182","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a6a5671-17af-4fc8-a8da-c286401e58db.jpg?v=1727925141","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-impatient-life-daniel-bensaid-9781781688182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}