Notes on Contributors

Editors’ Introduction written by Ceren Özselçuk on behalf of the Editorial Collective.

Josep Maria Antentas

Sociologist and member of the Facultad de Educación Social y Trabajo Social Pere Tarrés, Universidad Ramon Llull (URL), Barcelona. He has worked on Daniel Bensaïd’s oeuvre, the Spanish political crisis, and social movements and globalization. His research has been published in journals such as Labor History, Antipode, Historical Materialism, Rethinking Marxism, Science & Society, Globalizations, Socialism and Democracy, and Dialectical Anthropology.

Daniel Bensaïd

Was a prominent Marxist militant and intellectual (Toulouse, 1946–Paris, 2010). He was a leader of the Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (JCR) founded in 1966, of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionaire (LCR) and of the Fourth International. He developed an important intellectual work centred on revolutionary strategy, in which he mixed a classical Marxist background with the influence of Walter Benjamin and the messianic tradition.

David Broder

A translator and historian of French and Italian communism.

Bülent Küçük

Ph.D. in social sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin (2007), and associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. His research interests include social theory, popular culture, social memory, political sociology, and Kurdish and Turkish studies. His Ph.D. thesis, Die Türkei und das andere Europa: Phantasmen der Identität im Beitrittsdiskurs, was published in 2008 (Transcript Verlag), with recent essays appearing in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and South Atlantic Quarterly (with Ceren Özselçuk).

Yahya M. Madra

Teaches economics at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and is a psychoanalyst in training in New York City, both since 2016. Prior to 2016, he taught at Skidmore and Gettysburg Colleges and at Boğaziçi University. Since 2019, he has served as a coeditor of Rethinking Marxism.

Felipe de Souza Mello

M.A. student for the Theory and Sociological Thought line of research at the Graduate Program in Sociology of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). His research investigates the works and critical theory of Roberto Schwarz, Paulo Arantes, and Francisco de Oliveira. He has a B.A. degree in Social Sciences and a teaching license in Sociology (2017) from the same university.

Ceren Özselçuk

Teaches in the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. She has been a long standing member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism, as well as has served as managing editor of the journal since 2011, and coeditor since 2023.

Fabio Mascaro Querido

Ph.D., director of the Department of Sociology, and professor of the Graduate Program in Sociology at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. His most recent books are Le marxisme “ouvert” et écologique de Michael Löwy: Hommage à un intellectuel nomade (with Arno Münster; L’Harmattan, 2019) and Michael Löwy: Marxismo y crítica de la modernidad (Herramienta, 2019).

Darren Roso

Melbourne-based philosophy major at the University of New England. He is the author of Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager and Karl Korsch: Weimar Germany’s Marxist Heretic, both forthcoming from Brill’s Historical Materialism Book Series.

Igor Shoikhedbrod

Assistant professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. Prior to this appointment, he taught at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto. He is the author of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and of publications in journals such as History of Political Thought, Contemporary Political Theory, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and Historical Materialism.

Michel Surya

Author of some thirty books, some belonging to literature (stories, novels), others to thought (essays), not without seeking to bring them closer together. The most recent of the novels: Le Monde des amants; the best known of his essays, a biography of Georges Bataille, is translated into Turkish: Georges Bataille. Ölüm Uğraşı (Alpha editions, 2016). He has directed Lignes since 1987, to which Daniel Bensaïd has often collaborated.

Nevhi̇z Tanyeli̇

As one of the artists that belong to the figurative painting generation, Nevhiz was born in Edirne, a city located on the Turkish-Greek border in Western Turkey, in 1941. Before graduating from the Department of Higher Painting, State Academy of the Fine Arts (now Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) in 1965, she studied at the workshops of Neşet Günal, Cemal Tollu, and Bedri Rahmi Eyüboglu. In 1971, shortly before the military coup, she went to Paris on a scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education. She continued her studies in the field of painting in museums and art galleries in France, England, and Spain. She served in various administrative and academic roles in institutions such as the Board of Education, Atatürk Education Institution, Marmara University, and Mersin University. Launching her first solo exhibition in 1964, she held many other solo exhibitions in various locations, such as in Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, and Paris. She currently resides in Istanbul and continues to work on painting.

Sophie Wahnich

Research director in history and political science at the National Research Institute (CNRS) in Paris. A specialist of the French Revolution trained in discourse analysis, political theory, the poetics of knowledge, and epistemology, Wahnich’s work deals with disruptive historical events and their consequences for the political, social, and emotional fabric of society. Her most recent book is La Révolution française n’est pas un mythe (Klincksieck, 2017; in English, The French Revolution in Theory, Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).

Deni̇z Çağtay Yilmaz

Currently pursuing his M.A. degree in the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. He graduated from the Department of Translation Studies, Boğaziçi University in 2019 and continued his graduate studies in the Department of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven in Belgium. His research interests include memory, identity, and migration.