Howard The Specter of Democracy

What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-50522-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, Dick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why Should We, and How Should We, Reclaim Marx?
Part 1. Marxism and the Intellectuals
1. Marxism in the Postcommunist World
2. Can French Intellectuals Escape Marxism?
3. The Frankfurt School and the Transformation of Critical Theory into Cultural Theory
4. Habermas's Reorientation of Critical Theory Toward Democratic Theory
5. The Anticommunist Marxism of "Socialisme ou Barbarie"
6. Claude Lefort's Passage from Revolutionary Theory to Political Theory
7. From Marx to Castoriadis, and from Castoriadis to Us
8. From the Critique of Totalitarianism to the Politics of Democracy
Part 2. Republican Democracy or Democratic Republics
9. The Burden of French History
10. Intersecting Trajectories of Republicanism in France and the United States
11. Reading U.S. History as Political
12. Fundamentalism and the American Exception
Part 3. Back to Marx?
13. Philosophy by Other Means?
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dick Howard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Among his books are The Marxian Legacy (2nd edition), The Birth of American Political Thought, From Marx to Kant (2nd edition), and Political Judgments. He has also published several books in French, most recently La démocratie à l'épreuve.