TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard, Dick
TI  - The specter of democracy
SN  - 0231124848
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Communism
KW  - Karl Marx
N1  - 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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