Impatient Life

A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensa�d was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France''s leading Marxist public intellectual, much in demand on talk shows and in the press. A lyrical essayis...