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The specter of democracy

Author: Dick Howard
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience an alternative way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that is radical and revolutionary.
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Named Person: Karl Marx
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dick Howard
ISBN: 0231124848 9780231124843 9780231124850 0231124856
OCLC Number: 48942272
Description: xvii, 353 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 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 --
pt. 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 --
pt. 3. Back to Marx --
13. Philosophy by other means?
Responsibility: Dick Howard.

Abstract:

In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience an alternative way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that is radical and revolutionary.

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