The specter of democracy/ Dick Howard

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Howard, Dick

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TextPublication details: New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.Description: xvii, 353 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0231124848

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DDC classification:

321.8 HOW/T

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?

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	General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section				321.8 HOW/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			P03944

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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?

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