Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation

by Fadi A. Bardawil

Book Overview

The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006757
• ISBN13: 9781478006756
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"