Socialism and Myth: The Case of Sorel and Bergson

Malcolm Vout and Lawrence Wilde ~ RP 046 (Summer 1987) ~ Article

Socialism and Myth: The Case of Sorel and Bergson Ma/co/m Vout and Lawrence Wi/de Georges Sorel (1847-1922) continues to exert a fascination for some radicals, as recent books and articles indicate [1]. This attraction is perhaps understandable, but in our view mistaken. It stems from his support for revolutionary syndicalism and his notion of the […]

As flowers turn towards the sun: Walter Benjamin’s Bergsonian image of the past

Andrew McGettigan ~ RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009), pp. 25–35 ~ Article

Benjamin’s theses ‘On the Concept of History’, the final precipitate of the unfinished Arcades Project, was intended to strike at the fundamental pil ars of a thought complicit in its times. [1] On the seventieth anniversary of the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact, which prompted its drafting, it is tempting to question the attraction of this set of […]