The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why

Columbia University Press (2002)
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Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish ...

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9780231124843   0231124848   0231124856   0231505221   9780231124850   9780231505222

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Introduction: Why Should We, and How Should We, Reclaim Marx?

1.Marxism in the Postcommunist orWld

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

8.From the Critique of Totalitarianism to the Politics of Democracy

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

13.Philosophy by Other Means

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