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Avec Que faire ? qui date de 1902, Lénine s’inscrit à nos yeux dans la lignée de Filippo Buonarroti (dont il n’avait sans doute jamais entendu parler) et d’Auguste Blanqui (avec lequel il a toujours marqué ses distances, « blanquiste » sous sa plume étant loin d’être un compliment). Tout dans cette lignée repose sur un parti de révolutionnaires pro
... See moreEric Hazan • La dynamique de la révolte: Sur des insurrections passées et d'autres à venir (LA FABRIQUE) (French Edition)

She wrote to Heidegger during the winter of 1932–3 asking point-blank whether he was a Nazi sympathiser. He denied it, in an angry letter emphasising how helpful he had been to Jewish students and colleagues. She was unconvinced, and they lost contact for seventeen years.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
BABETTE IS TALL and fairly ample; there is a girth and heft to her. Her hair is a fanatical blond mop, a particular tawny hue that used to be called dirty blond. If she were a petite woman, the hair would be too cute, too mischievous and contrived. Size gives her tousled aspect a certain seriousness. Ample women do not plan such things. They lack t
... See moreDon DeLillo • White Noise
hundreds of thousands of young activists mobilized against the gender assumptions