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) ~ Article

As flowers turn towards the sun Walter Benjamin’s Bergsonian image of the past Andrew mcgettigan 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, […]