Negativity and democracy : Marxism and the critical theory tradition / Vasilis Grollios.

By: Grollios, Vasilis [author.]Contributor(s): Centre for the Study of DemocracyMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in democratic theory: 6.Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages)ISBN: 9781315714844; 9781317502203Subject(s): Democracy -- Philosophy | Capitalism -- Philosophy | Marxist criticism | Critical theoryAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 320.532 LOC classification: JC423 | .G7748 2017Online resources: Click here to view.
Contents:
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.
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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.

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