000			00347nam a2200133Ia 4500
999			_c149283 _d149283
020			_a0231124848
040			_cCUS
082			_a321.8 _bHOW/T
100			_aHoward, Dick
245		4	_aThe specter of democracy/ _cDick Howard
260			_aNew York: _bColumbia University Press, _c2002.
300			_axvii, 353 p. ; _c24 cm.
505			_apt. 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?
650			_aDemocracy
650			_aPolitical and social views
650			_aCommunism
650			_aKarl Marx
942			_cWB16