{"product_id":"an-impatient-life-a-memoir-9781781688182","title":"An Impatient Life: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Bensaid | Tariq Ali\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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 Bensaïd'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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46290081415319,"sku":"9781781688182","price":1540.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781781688182.webp?v=1769303922","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-impatient-life-a-memoir-9781781688182","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}