The specter of democracy/
Dick Howard
- New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
- xvii, 353 p. ; 24 cm.
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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Democracy Political and social views Communism Karl Marx