Josep Maria Antentas
Biographic Data
| ID | 909059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josep Maria Antentas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josep Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Antentas |
| SIGNATURE | ANTENTAS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0364-3653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Special Issue on Strategy
In a period marked by the inability of all variants of the Left to overcome the burden of defeat and fragmentation, of constant vacillations between reformism and sectarianism, this special issue of Historical Materialism attempts to reopen questions of strategy.
On Strategy: Thinking with the Military
This article discusses the concept of strategy and how contemporary military thinking can contribute to strategy from below. First it discusses the military lineages of the term ‘strategy’. Second, the evolution of its meaning and its entry into the labour movement. Third, the relationship with ‘tactics’. Fourth, it analyses the concept of ‘operational art’ and explores how it can be used outside the military field. Fifth, it reviews some key deb…
Daniel Bensaïd: A Brief Introduction
Daniel Bensaïd left a prolific intellectual production whose main concern was the discussion of revolutionary strategy and is inseparable from his militant experience. Bensaïd's work is marked by a peculiar combination of a "classical Marxist" background and a turn towards a secularized messianism under the influence of Walter Benjamin. Bensaïd achieved a certain notoriety in the last decade of his life, although he occupied a marginal position i…
Recommence the Defeats: Bensaïd’s Péguy
From the late 1980s onward, Daniel Bensaïd developed an extensive theoretical oeuvre marked by the influence of Walter Benjamin intertwined with Bensaïd’s own classical Marxist background. Through Benjamin, Bensaïd came to the work of Charles Péguy, whose role in his thought has yet to be fully analyzed. Bensaïd does not ignore Péguy’s contradictions and limits but reads them selectively to better understand history, politics, and temporality. Th…
Daniel Bensaïd’s Marrano Internationalism
Bensaïd’s interest in Marranism is part of his broader interest in Jewish mysticism, read in a profane and secularised way, and of his search for new theoretical paths with which to renew revolutionary Marxist theory. ‘Marrano’ refers to the Spanish–Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity in the fifteenth century and who were suspected of judaising in secret. The term has been increasingly used by many authors, including Bensa…
The Strike and Contemporary Protest: An Overview
Global internationalism: An introduction
Internationalism is a very broad concept that can have several meanings and has a long history. Two conceptions of internationalism can be distinguished, a strong and a weak one. There are different types and forms of international solidarity. It can be understood as part of a politicization process in which identities are built and reconfigured as a result of political struggle and combines altruistic motives and mutual interest. International s…
Memories of the Present in Bensaïd’s Jeanne de guerre lasse
In 1991, the French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd wrote a book about Joan of Arc as a part of his trilogy about history and memory: Jeanne de guerre lasse. This book, conceived as an imaginary dialogue between the author and the Maid, had a dual purpose: first, to contest Joan’s memory among the French far right, which was using her as an emblem; second, to reclaim the historic memory of the defeated. Bensaïd does not seek to define the authentic Jo…
The 15M, Podemos and the Long Crisis in Spain: Gramscian Perspectives
This article aims to analyze the 15M movement and its outcomes through Gramscian lenses. The 15M expressed a crisis of ruling class hegemony based on a crisis of political representation. It was a moment of collective splintering and political subjectivation. Viewed from Gramsci’s distinction between small and big politics, the 15M marked the beginning of a phase in which big politics ceased to be the exclusive prerogative of the dominant classes…
Introduction: Memories and Legacies of the 15M
Spain: The State, the Regime Crisis and the National Question
Catalonia: The national question and labor’s strategic dilemmas
The history of Catalonia has involved a complex articulation between the national and the social questions. The history of Catalonia must be understood in terms of the complex divorces and marriages between Catalanism and the labor movement that has presented major strategic crossroads and struggles for the political leadership of the country, that overlap with the internal fights inside the labor movement and Catalanism. The currents of the labo…
Coronavirus: Notes on Crisis, Borders and the Future of Neoliberalism
Every crisis is a moment both of the intensification of borders (social, economic, geographical ...) and of their potential breaking down – a moment of the reaffirmation of a certain social model and of its questioning. Borders have acquired centrality in the imaginary of the management of the pandemic. They are a constitutive part of the pandemic condition, endowed with a new symbolic and cognitive force. The new importance of borders in times o…
Notes on corona crisis and temporality
Podemos and the Spanish political crisis
15 May 2011 marked the beginning of a major political and regime crisis in Spain. It has since passed through different stages – the last being the emergence of Podemos, which has become a major player in Spanish politics. The crisis of traditional mechanisms of political representation has become a crisis of hegemony of the ruling class, in the Gramscian sense of the term. The mass support for the ruling class and its traditional form of politic…
Spain: From the indignados rebellion to regime crisis (2011-2016)
Since 15 May 2011 Spain has progressively entered a political and regime crisis in which the main institutional pillars of the political system constructed in 1977-1978 during the transition from the Franco dictatorship to parliamentary democracy suffered from serious wear. This can be analysed following Gramsci's notion of hegemony crisis whose main features fit well with the current situation in Spain. The regime crisis has passed through diffe…
Daniel Bensaïd, Melancholic Strategist
Daniel Bensaïd was a Marxist philosopher and author of an extensive body of works about political strategy. His writings combine a diversity of singular influences, such as Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Che Guevara on the one hand, and Benjamin, Péguy and Blanqui on the other. In his work, religious heresies, Marranos, moles and emblematic figures of the resistance to oppression such as Joan of Arc meet with the classic figures of Marxism. The non-lin…
Internationalist Challenges: Antiglobalisation, Occupy, and Indignados
Subaltern classes' internationalism has a long history. The 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a new internationalism because of the emergence of the antiglobalisation movement. It was a short-lived movement, but that gave birth to a new set of strong internationalist activity. In 2011, there emerged a new international wave of protest by both the Indignados and the Occupy movements. These new movements, however, h…
Miguel Romero (1945–2014): A Political and Intellectual Portrait
Miguel Romero (1946–2014) was one of the most prominent figures of Spain's revolutionary Left and became the editor of the political journal Viento Sur in 1992. His death on 26 January 2014 offers an opportunity to look back at his political and intellectual life and to present him to the Anglo-Saxon world at a time when Spain is at the center of European politics due to the major economic and political crisis that it is suffering. Romero's milit…
Sliding Scale of Spaces and Dilemmas of Internationalism: Dilemmas of Internationalism
Internationalism of the subaltern classes has a long and tortuous history and different patterns of space and scale management. To think of contemporary social movements, internationalism involves analyzing how different spatial-geographical levels of resistance are interrelated. Globalization has led to a mutation in the spatial and temporal conditions of political activity and collective protest and thus for internationalist activity. The conce…
Spain: The indignados rebellion of 2011 in perspective
The outbreak of the 15M or indignado movement in Spain in 2011 was the biggest episode of social unrest since the end of the Transition in the 1970s. Its emergence caught the political parties, media, trade unions and the most important community-based organisations and pre-existing social movements off guard. It targeted those who were identified as responsible for the recession and how it was handled – politicians and bankers –, and represented…
Daniel BensaïD's Joan of Arc
The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) bequeathed an extensive political and philosophical oeuvre which mixes classical Marxist references with authors like Walter Benjamin and Charles Péguy. Concerned with reconstructing strategic thinking for today's world, he sought inspiration in uncommon places for Marxist thinking, such as medieval religious heresies, Marranism, Messianism and figures like Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orléans, situat…
The Scissors of Debt: Comments from Southern Europe
The debt crisis and austerity policies are hitting the societies of Europe's Mediterranean periphery, particularly Portugal, Greece, and Spain, hard. With the onset of the economic crisis, a whole growth and development model based on low wages and property speculation has come crashing to the ground. But in addition, as a result of the adjustment measures implemented, the entire social model and the system of social rights won in previous decade…
The Madeira River Complex: Socio-Environmental Impact in Bolivian Amazonia and Social Resistance
Los sindicatos ante la conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar-personal
En aquest article s’analitzen les posicions dels sindicats pel que fa a la conciliació, a partir tant de documents oficials legislatius europeus i espanyols com d’entrevistes fetes a afiliats sindicals. Així, veiem que la postura sindical, l’articulació de la conciliació com un dret col·lectiu, no comporta una conciliació real entre la vida laboral, la familiar i la personal a causa de la seva identificació com a mesura per a dones treballadores,…
Spain: The indignados rebellion of 2011 in perspective
The outbreak of the 15M or indignado movement in Spain in 2011 was the biggest episode of social unrest since the end of the Transition in the 1970s. Its emergence caught the political parties, media, trade unions and the most important community-based organisations and pre-existing social movements off guard. It targeted those who were identified as responsible for the recession and how it was handled – politicians and bankers –, and represented…
Notes on corona crisis and temporality
Sliding Scale of Spaces and Dilemmas of Internationalism: Dilemmas of Internationalism
Internationalism of the subaltern classes has a long and tortuous history and different patterns of space and scale management. To think of contemporary social movements, internationalism involves analyzing how different spatial-geographical levels of resistance are interrelated. Globalization has led to a mutation in the spatial and temporal conditions of political activity and collective protest and thus for internationalist activity. The conce…
Spain: From the indignados rebellion to regime crisis (2011-2016)
Since 15 May 2011 Spain has progressively entered a political and regime crisis in which the main institutional pillars of the political system constructed in 1977-1978 during the transition from the Franco dictatorship to parliamentary democracy suffered from serious wear. This can be analysed following Gramsci's notion of hegemony crisis whose main features fit well with the current situation in Spain. The regime crisis has passed through diffe…
Internationalist Challenges: Antiglobalisation, Occupy, and Indignados
Subaltern classes' internationalism has a long history. The 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a new internationalism because of the emergence of the antiglobalisation movement. It was a short-lived movement, but that gave birth to a new set of strong internationalist activity. In 2011, there emerged a new international wave of protest by both the Indignados and the Occupy movements. These new movements, however, h…
Daniel BensaïD's Joan of Arc
The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) bequeathed an extensive political and philosophical oeuvre which mixes classical Marxist references with authors like Walter Benjamin and Charles Péguy. Concerned with reconstructing strategic thinking for today's world, he sought inspiration in uncommon places for Marxist thinking, such as medieval religious heresies, Marranism, Messianism and figures like Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orléans, situat…
The Madeira River Complex: Socio-Environmental Impact in Bolivian Amazonia and Social Resistance
The Strike and Contemporary Protest: An Overview
Global internationalism: An introduction
Internationalism is a very broad concept that can have several meanings and has a long history. Two conceptions of internationalism can be distinguished, a strong and a weak one. There are different types and forms of international solidarity. It can be understood as part of a politicization process in which identities are built and reconfigured as a result of political struggle and combines altruistic motives and mutual interest. International s…
Memories of the Present in Bensaïd’s Jeanne de guerre lasse
In 1991, the French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd wrote a book about Joan of Arc as a part of his trilogy about history and memory: Jeanne de guerre lasse. This book, conceived as an imaginary dialogue between the author and the Maid, had a dual purpose: first, to contest Joan’s memory among the French far right, which was using her as an emblem; second, to reclaim the historic memory of the defeated. Bensaïd does not seek to define the authentic Jo…
Podemos and the Spanish political crisis
15 May 2011 marked the beginning of a major political and regime crisis in Spain. It has since passed through different stages – the last being the emergence of Podemos, which has become a major player in Spanish politics. The crisis of traditional mechanisms of political representation has become a crisis of hegemony of the ruling class, in the Gramscian sense of the term. The mass support for the ruling class and its traditional form of politic…
Daniel Bensaïd’s Marrano Internationalism
Bensaïd’s interest in Marranism is part of his broader interest in Jewish mysticism, read in a profane and secularised way, and of his search for new theoretical paths with which to renew revolutionary Marxist theory. ‘Marrano’ refers to the Spanish–Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity in the fifteenth century and who were suspected of judaising in secret. The term has been increasingly used by many authors, including Bensa…
Daniel Bensaïd, Melancholic Strategist
Daniel Bensaïd was a Marxist philosopher and author of an extensive body of works about political strategy. His writings combine a diversity of singular influences, such as Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Che Guevara on the one hand, and Benjamin, Péguy and Blanqui on the other. In his work, religious heresies, Marranos, moles and emblematic figures of the resistance to oppression such as Joan of Arc meet with the classic figures of Marxism. The non-lin…
Miguel Romero (1945–2014): A Political and Intellectual Portrait
Miguel Romero (1946–2014) was one of the most prominent figures of Spain's revolutionary Left and became the editor of the political journal Viento Sur in 1992. His death on 26 January 2014 offers an opportunity to look back at his political and intellectual life and to present him to the Anglo-Saxon world at a time when Spain is at the center of European politics due to the major economic and political crisis that it is suffering. Romero's milit…
The Scissors of Debt: Comments from Southern Europe
The debt crisis and austerity policies are hitting the societies of Europe's Mediterranean periphery, particularly Portugal, Greece, and Spain, hard. With the onset of the economic crisis, a whole growth and development model based on low wages and property speculation has come crashing to the ground. But in addition, as a result of the adjustment measures implemented, the entire social model and the system of social rights won in previous decade…
Los sindicatos ante la conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar-personal
En aquest article s’analitzen les posicions dels sindicats pel que fa a la conciliació, a partir tant de documents oficials legislatius europeus i espanyols com d’entrevistes fetes a afiliats sindicals. Així, veiem que la postura sindical, l’articulació de la conciliació com un dret col·lectiu, no comporta una conciliació real entre la vida laboral, la familiar i la personal a causa de la seva identificació com a mesura per a dones treballadores,…
The Madeira River Complex: Socio-Environmental Impact in Bolivian Amazonia and Social Resistance
Daniel BensaïD's Joan of Arc
The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) bequeathed an extensive political and philosophical oeuvre which mixes classical Marxist references with authors like Walter Benjamin and Charles Péguy. Concerned with reconstructing strategic thinking for today's world, he sought inspiration in uncommon places for Marxist thinking, such as medieval religious heresies, Marranism, Messianism and figures like Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orléans, situat…
The Scissors of Debt: Comments from Southern Europe
The debt crisis and austerity policies are hitting the societies of Europe's Mediterranean periphery, particularly Portugal, Greece, and Spain, hard. With the onset of the economic crisis, a whole growth and development model based on low wages and property speculation has come crashing to the ground. But in addition, as a result of the adjustment measures implemented, the entire social model and the system of social rights won in previous decade…
Internationalist Challenges: Antiglobalisation, Occupy, and Indignados
Subaltern classes' internationalism has a long history. The 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a new internationalism because of the emergence of the antiglobalisation movement. It was a short-lived movement, but that gave birth to a new set of strong internationalist activity. In 2011, there emerged a new international wave of protest by both the Indignados and the Occupy movements. These new movements, however, h…
Miguel Romero (1945–2014): A Political and Intellectual Portrait
Miguel Romero (1946–2014) was one of the most prominent figures of Spain's revolutionary Left and became the editor of the political journal Viento Sur in 1992. His death on 26 January 2014 offers an opportunity to look back at his political and intellectual life and to present him to the Anglo-Saxon world at a time when Spain is at the center of European politics due to the major economic and political crisis that it is suffering. Romero's milit…
Sliding Scale of Spaces and Dilemmas of Internationalism: Dilemmas of Internationalism
Internationalism of the subaltern classes has a long and tortuous history and different patterns of space and scale management. To think of contemporary social movements, internationalism involves analyzing how different spatial-geographical levels of resistance are interrelated. Globalization has led to a mutation in the spatial and temporal conditions of political activity and collective protest and thus for internationalist activity. The conce…
Spain: The indignados rebellion of 2011 in perspective
The outbreak of the 15M or indignado movement in Spain in 2011 was the biggest episode of social unrest since the end of the Transition in the 1970s. Its emergence caught the political parties, media, trade unions and the most important community-based organisations and pre-existing social movements off guard. It targeted those who were identified as responsible for the recession and how it was handled – politicians and bankers –, and represented…
Daniel Bensaïd, Melancholic Strategist
Daniel Bensaïd was a Marxist philosopher and author of an extensive body of works about political strategy. His writings combine a diversity of singular influences, such as Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Che Guevara on the one hand, and Benjamin, Péguy and Blanqui on the other. In his work, religious heresies, Marranos, moles and emblematic figures of the resistance to oppression such as Joan of Arc meet with the classic figures of Marxism. The non-lin…
Podemos and the Spanish political crisis
15 May 2011 marked the beginning of a major political and regime crisis in Spain. It has since passed through different stages – the last being the emergence of Podemos, which has become a major player in Spanish politics. The crisis of traditional mechanisms of political representation has become a crisis of hegemony of the ruling class, in the Gramscian sense of the term. The mass support for the ruling class and its traditional form of politic…
Spain: From the indignados rebellion to regime crisis (2011-2016)
Since 15 May 2011 Spain has progressively entered a political and regime crisis in which the main institutional pillars of the political system constructed in 1977-1978 during the transition from the Franco dictatorship to parliamentary democracy suffered from serious wear. This can be analysed following Gramsci's notion of hegemony crisis whose main features fit well with the current situation in Spain. The regime crisis has passed through diffe…
Catalonia: The national question and labor’s strategic dilemmas
The history of Catalonia has involved a complex articulation between the national and the social questions. The history of Catalonia must be understood in terms of the complex divorces and marriages between Catalanism and the labor movement that has presented major strategic crossroads and struggles for the political leadership of the country, that overlap with the internal fights inside the labor movement and Catalanism. The currents of the labo…
Coronavirus: Notes on Crisis, Borders and the Future of Neoliberalism
Every crisis is a moment both of the intensification of borders (social, economic, geographical ...) and of their potential breaking down – a moment of the reaffirmation of a certain social model and of its questioning. Borders have acquired centrality in the imaginary of the management of the pandemic. They are a constitutive part of the pandemic condition, endowed with a new symbolic and cognitive force. The new importance of borders in times o…
Notes on corona crisis and temporality
Spain: The State, the Regime Crisis and the National Question
Daniel Bensaïd’s Marrano Internationalism
Bensaïd’s interest in Marranism is part of his broader interest in Jewish mysticism, read in a profane and secularised way, and of his search for new theoretical paths with which to renew revolutionary Marxist theory. ‘Marrano’ refers to the Spanish–Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity in the fifteenth century and who were suspected of judaising in secret. The term has been increasingly used by many authors, including Bensa…
The Strike and Contemporary Protest: An Overview
Global internationalism: An introduction
Internationalism is a very broad concept that can have several meanings and has a long history. Two conceptions of internationalism can be distinguished, a strong and a weak one. There are different types and forms of international solidarity. It can be understood as part of a politicization process in which identities are built and reconfigured as a result of political struggle and combines altruistic motives and mutual interest. International s…
Memories of the Present in Bensaïd’s Jeanne de guerre lasse
In 1991, the French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd wrote a book about Joan of Arc as a part of his trilogy about history and memory: Jeanne de guerre lasse. This book, conceived as an imaginary dialogue between the author and the Maid, had a dual purpose: first, to contest Joan’s memory among the French far right, which was using her as an emblem; second, to reclaim the historic memory of the defeated. Bensaïd does not seek to define the authentic Jo…
The 15M, Podemos and the Long Crisis in Spain: Gramscian Perspectives
This article aims to analyze the 15M movement and its outcomes through Gramscian lenses. The 15M expressed a crisis of ruling class hegemony based on a crisis of political representation. It was a moment of collective splintering and political subjectivation. Viewed from Gramsci’s distinction between small and big politics, the 15M marked the beginning of a phase in which big politics ceased to be the exclusive prerogative of the dominant classes…
Introduction: Memories and Legacies of the 15M
Daniel Bensaïd: A Brief Introduction
Daniel Bensaïd left a prolific intellectual production whose main concern was the discussion of revolutionary strategy and is inseparable from his militant experience. Bensaïd's work is marked by a peculiar combination of a "classical Marxist" background and a turn towards a secularized messianism under the influence of Walter Benjamin. Bensaïd achieved a certain notoriety in the last decade of his life, although he occupied a marginal position i…
Recommence the Defeats: Bensaïd’s Péguy
From the late 1980s onward, Daniel Bensaïd developed an extensive theoretical oeuvre marked by the influence of Walter Benjamin intertwined with Bensaïd’s own classical Marxist background. Through Benjamin, Bensaïd came to the work of Charles Péguy, whose role in his thought has yet to be fully analyzed. Bensaïd does not ignore Péguy’s contradictions and limits but reads them selectively to better understand history, politics, and temporality. Th…
Special Issue on Strategy
In a period marked by the inability of all variants of the Left to overcome the burden of defeat and fragmentation, of constant vacillations between reformism and sectarianism, this special issue of Historical Materialism attempts to reopen questions of strategy.
On Strategy: Thinking with the Military
This article discusses the concept of strategy and how contemporary military thinking can contribute to strategy from below. First it discusses the military lineages of the term ‘strategy’. Second, the evolution of its meaning and its entry into the labour movement. Third, the relationship with ‘tactics’. Fourth, it analyses the concept of ‘operational art’ and explores how it can be used outside the military field. Fifth, it reviews some key deb…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · History (8 works)