Grollios, Vasilis.,

Negativity and democracy : Marxism and the critical theory tradition / Vasilis Grollios. - 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) - Routledge advances in democratic theory ; 6 . - Routledge advances in democratic theory ; 6. .

1. Marx and Engels's critique of democracy : the materialist character of their concept of autonomy -- 2. Dialectics and the transition to socialism in late F. Engels's philosophy of history : freeing Marx from the "withering away of the state" theory -- 3. Max Horkheimer's dialectics rehabilitated : how Horkheimer's "open marxism" cracks capitalism -- 4. Dialectics and democracy in Georg Lukacs' Marxism -- 5. False social totality and the ineffable integrity in T. Adorno's negative dialectics : the critical theorist and the challenges of the twenty-first century -- 6. Determinate negation of the one-dimensional society : how Herbert Marcuse's great refusal cracks capitalism -- 7. Finding hope in the nihilism of bourgeois life : Ernst Bloch's open Marxism reconsidered -- 8. The descendants of negative dialectics : dialectics and democracy in open Marxism.

9781315714844 9781317502203

10.4324/9781315714844 doi


Democracy--Philosophy.
Capitalism--Philosophy.
Marxist criticism.
Critical theory.

JC423 / .G7748 2017

320.532 / G875
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